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the son of Sir Robert Needham, first Viscount Kilmoray, and by whom she was ancestress of the present Gen. Needham, of that island, and of the Lords Seaford and Howard de Walden. EDWARD BYAM, youngest son of Lieut.-Gen. Byam, was governor of the Leeward Islands,* 1715, and president of Che council of Antigua in 1707, born at Surinam, 1663-4, and m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Samuel Winthorpe, and granddau. of John Winthorpe, first governor of New England, and of Groton Hall, co. Suffolk ; 2ndly, Lydia, dau. of William Thomas, aunt of Sir George Thomas, and relict of Samuel Martin, of Green Castle, Antigua, (ancestor of the present Sir Henry and Sir Byam Martin.) Col. Edward Byam is described by Oldmixon, in his " British Empire in America," as a man of the best head and fortune in British America ; and also as the most popular man in the Leeward Islands. He commanded, in the attack upon the island Guadaloupe, on the breaking out of the war of succession, in the reign of Queen Anne, a regiment raised by himself in Antigua, and a part of the Enniskillen, or 27th regt. of the line. At the head of this force, he attacked and carried in gallant style the port called " Les petits Habitans," and obliged the enemy to retire. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette, No. 3912, from May 6th to May 10th, and also in the " Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne." By his first wife, Mary, he had one son and one dau.—viz., Edward, m. Walthian Devonshire, and died at Antigua, 29 May, 1745. Mary, born 13 Oct. 1690, m. Col. Thomas Williams, of the Old Road, Antigua. By his second wife, Lydia, relict of Samuel Martin, he had three sons and two daus.—viz., I. George, born at Antigua, 24 April, 1704, m. Henrietta-Maria, dau.
of Col. John Ffrys, of Antigua, and died 12 Nov. 1734, leaving issue two sons and four daus.—viz., 1. George, of Apps Court, co. Surrey, m. Louisa, dau. of Peter Bathurst, Esq., M.P., of Clarendon Park, co. Wilts, and niece of Earl Bathurst, and was buried at St. George's, Antigua, 7 Nov. 1779, had issue, 1. George Byam, died an infant, in 1774 ; 2. Selina, m. Rev. William Hony, of Liskeard, co. Cornwall, and has issue ; 3. Elizabeth, m. Mark Batt, of Lawell House, co. Devon, and d. s. p. ; 4 and 5. Louisa and Henrietta-Maria, both d. unm. 2. John, died at Antigua, 26 Oct. 1754, unm. 3. Mary, m. 1st, — Lyons, of Antigua, and 2ndly, Daniel Mathew, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, eo. Essex, some time high-sheriff * So termed by the Heralds of the College of Arms, although only mentioned in Antiguan history as lieut.-governor of the island.