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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733) c.1720 Description Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter.
Biography One of the young army officers who supported William III's accession; 1691, transferred to the navy; 1704, played an important part in the capture of Gibraltar,which resulted in a knighthood; August 1718, decisive victory against the Spanish off Cape Passaro, Sicily; 1721, he was raised to the peerage with the title Baron Byng of Southill; 1725, created Viscount Torrington; 1727 ...
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. by John Faber Sr, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt mezzotint, published 1725 or after NPG D4374
George Stanley Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington (29 April 1841 – 20 October 1889), known as George Byng until 1884, was a British Conservative politician. Origins [ edit ] He was the son of Major the Hon. Robert Barlow Palmer Byng (third son of George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington ), by his wife Elizabeth Maria Gwatkin, a daughter of Major-General Edward Gwatkin, a son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin .
1 Presumably the ‘full length Portrait of … the first Viscount Torrington, in his Robes - Sir Godfrey Kneller’ listed at Yotes Court in Neale, Seats, II, IV, 1828, no.19. The Byngs had inherited Yotes in 1791 from the Master family (the 1st Viscount had married Margaret Master), remaining there until 1948 (see Country Life , CXXXV, 25 June 1968, p 1651).
Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, KB, PC (27 January 1663 – 17 January 1733), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a Royal Navy officer and statesman.
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington Jeremiah Davison (c.1695–1745) (attributed to) National Portrait Gallery, London
