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11 de may. de 2020 · An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily, in the Years 1718, 1719 And 1720: Under the Command of Sir George Byng, Bart. (Afterwards Viscount Torrington) Author: Thomas Corbett: Publisher: HardPress, 2020: ISBN: 0371885868, 9780371885864: Length: 240 pages: Subjects
TORRINGTON, GEORGE BYNG, Viscount (1663–1733), English admiral, was born at Wrotham, Kent. His father, John Byng, was compelled by pecuniary losses to sell his property and his son entered the navy as a king’s letter boy (see Navy ) in 1678. He served in a ship stationed at Tangier, and for a time left the navy to enter one of the regiments ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Byng, George, 1st Viscount Torrington. Byng, George, 1st Viscount Torrington (1664–1733). Byng entered the navy at 14 from a family in straitened circumstances. In 1688, while serving as a lieutenant in Dartmouth's fleet, he acted as intermediary with William of Orange and was rewarded with his own command. By 1703 he was rear admiral and was ...
George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. by John Faber Sr, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt mezzotint, published 1725 or after NPG D4374
The log of the British 74-gun ship-of-the-line Monarch recorded the death of Admiral John Byng in the starkest of terms: “At 12 Mr Byng was shot dead by 6 Marines, and put into his coffin.”. We can sense the care with which the words were chosen to describe in neutral terms a significant political event at a time when politics was the ...
BYNG, GEORGE, Viscount Torrington (1663–1733), admiral, eldest son of John Byng, of a family settled for many centuries at Wrotham in Kent, was born on 27 Jan. 1662–3. In 1666 his father, having got into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to part with the Wrotham estate, and went over to Ireland, where he would seem to have engaged in some ...
Julian Hedworth George Byng, Canada's twelfth Governor General, brought to his office a distinguished military record. Born on September 11th, 1862, the son of the second Earl of Strafford, he became a professional soldier and served in India; in the South African War; with the occupation forces in Egypt and in the First World War.
