Byrom, John, poet and stenographer, born near Manchester; invented a system of shorthand, now superseded, and which he had the sole right of teaching for 21 years; contributed as “John Shadow” to the Spectator; author of the pastoral, “My Time, O ye Muses, was Happily Spent”; his poetry satirical and genial (1692‒1763).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Byng, John * Byron, George Gordon, sixth Lord