| Honorific-Prefix: | Captain The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Byron | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start: | 1 March 1868 |
| Term End: | 28 November 1870 Hereditary peerage |
| Predecessor: | The 7th Baron Byron |
| Successor: | The 9th Baron Byron |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1818 |
| Spouse: | Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb |
| Parents: | George Byron, 7th Baron Byron Elizabeth Mary Chandos-Pole |
Captain George Anson Byron, 8th Baron Byron (30 June 1818 – 28 November 1870) was a British nobleman, army officer, peer, politician, and the eighth Baron Byron, as the son of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron, who was the cousin of Romantic poet and writer George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.
Byron was the son of Admiral George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron and Elizabeth Mary Chandos-Pole. He gained the rank of captain in the 19th Foot in 1842. He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Byron in 1868 upon the death of his father.
Lord Byron died on 28 November 1870, and was succeeded by his nephew, George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron (born 1855).
Lord Byron married Lucy Elizabeth Jane Wescomb, daughter of Reverend William Wescomb and Jane Douglas, in 1843. They had no children.
| Crest: | A Mermaid proper |
| Coronet: | A Coronet of a Baron |
| Escutcheon: | Argent three Bendlets enhanced Gules |
| Supporters: | On either side a Horse of a brown bay colour unguled Or |
| Motto: | Crede Byron (Trust Byron) |
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