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George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington was born on 11 October 1740. 1 He was the son of Maj.-Gen. George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington and Elizabeth Daniel. 1, 2 He married Lady Lucy Boyle, daughter of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Margaret Hamilton, on 20 July 1765. 3 He died on 14 December 1812 at age 72 at Ham Common, Surrey, England. 1, 4.
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).
Captain Byng succeeded to the title on the demise of his father, Jan. 8, 1813. That nobleman had survived his brother, George, the fourth Viscount, only 14 days. The Warrior was principally employed in the Baltic and North Seas, under the Admirals Young, Foley, and Hope, by whom our officer’s conduct on all occasions, was most warmly approved ...
BYNG, JULIAN HEDWORTH GEORGE, 1st Viscount BYNG, militia and army officer, governor general, and police commissioner; b. 11 Sept. 1862 at Wrotham Park, Barnet (London), England, son of George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, and his second wife, Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham; m. 30 April 1902 Marie Evelyn Moreton (1870–1949) in ...
name=George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington lived=1668 – 17 January 1733 caption= Admiral of the Fleet George Byng by Jeremiah Davison in 1733
George Byng, VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, ADMIRAL, Was the eldest son of John Byng, Esq., of Wrotham Court, where he was born Jan. 27, 1683. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as a volunteer. After several promotions, he was in 1702 raised to the command of the Nassau, and was present at the taking and burning of the French fleet in Vigo Bay.
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. by Jeremiah Davison oil on canvas, circa 1730 79 in. x 56 in. (2007 mm x 1422 mm) Given by Hon. George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington, 1857
