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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, was born in 1663. His career at first wavered between the army and the navy, and he actually held commissions in both services. In 1688 he was entrusted with the task of canvassing the navy captains in the interests of the Prince of Orange, and obtained the latter's goodwill.
Two, both on the riverside, were inherited by Elizabeth Byng, wife of the Hon. Robert Byng — the third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington — from her father, Jonathan Forward, a contractor of transports, who had bought them in 1754.
Hace 4 días · His grandson, John Byng, esq. (whose eldest son, George, was created lord viscount Torrington, and was direct ancestor of the present lord viscount Torrington) succeeded him in his possessions here, which he, soon after the death of king Charles I. alienated to William James, esq. of Ightham-court, at which time he had likewise an assignment of ...
Hace 3 días · George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington: 1724–1734: Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington: 1734–1742: Arthur Onslow: 1742: Thomas Clutterbuck: 1742–1743: Sir Charles Wager: 1743–1744: Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet: 1744–1749: George Bubb Dodington: 1749–1754: Henry Legge: 1754–1756: George Grenville: 1756: George Bubb ...
Hace 1 día · Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781108163927; 264pp.; Price: £75.00. At the end of December 1756, Admiral John Byng was put on trial for breaching the Articles of War, instructions set out by the Royal Navy in 1749 to establish and regulate martial behaviour.
Hace 2 días · In 1814, soon after the death in action of his elder brother, he succeeded his childless great-uncle Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1st Baron Bridport as Baron Bridport, under the special remainder of that title in the Peerage of Ireland.
Hace 2 días · We are grateful for David Coast’s perceptive review of The Murder of King James I and for his interesting questions about further research. As he suggests, a properly historicized approach to how contemporaries imagined that political life operated is essential to further progress in the field, and, in the past few months, our understanding of this particular issue has come into even sharper ...
