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History: The Byng family of Wrotham in Kent produced two English admirals. George Byng (1666–1733), who captured Gibraltar in 1704 and destroyed the Spanish fleet, was made Viscount Torrington in 1721. His son, John Byng, failed to lift the French siege of Minorca in 1756 and in consequence was executed for neglect of duty, amid a storm of controversy. This event provoked Voltaire's ...
Southill, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England Add to Map First Viscount Torrington.
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79 in. x 56 in. (2007 mm x 1422 mm) Given by Hon. George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington, 1857. Primary Collection. NPG 14.
Hon. Emily Elizabeth Byng (1779–1824), who married Henry Seymour of Brighthelmston, Sussex, son of Lord Robert Seymour, in 1801. [6] Lord Torrington died on 14 December 1812, and as he left no surviving male issue he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington, who died less than a month later.
Torrington was the son of Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768-1831). [1] He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1831 at the age of eighteen. On 19 March 1833 he married Mary Anne, only daughter of Sir John Astley, 1st Baronet. Their only daughter, Frances Elizabeth, died on 2 September 1853.
George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington. Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington DCL FRS (5 January 1768–18 June 1831), Royal Navy, commanded HMS Cumberland, the ship which returned King William I to the Netherlands from his exile in London, [1] for which service he was appointed by the king to the Military Order of William .
