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    Vice-Admiral John Byron (8 November 1723 – 1 April 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the...
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    John Byron, 1st Baron Byron KB (1599 – 23 August 1652) was an English nobleman, Royalist, politician, peer, knight, and supporter of Charles I during...
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    John Byron Nelson Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American professional golfer between 1935 and 1946, widely considered one of the greatest...
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    Captain John Byron (1757 – 2 August 1791) was a British Army officer and letter writer, best known as the father of the poet Lord Byron. In 1824, an obituary...
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    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic...
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  • John Byron (1723–1786) was a Royal Navy vice-admiral. John Byron may also refer to: Sir John Byron (died 1450) (1386–1450), MP for Lincolnshire and Lancashire...
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    Cape Byron after a fellow sailor Vice Admiral 'Foul-Weather Jack' John Byron, circumnavigator of the world and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. European...
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    Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1643 by letters patent for Sir John Byron...
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    John Byron Owens (born 1971) is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
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    some sails that were left behind. Two midshipmen, Alexander Campbell and John Byron, contrived to be part of this group after they were misled into believing...
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    nearby island just to the west is named Byron Island (es:Isla Byron), in honour of loyal midshipman John Byron. Some of the crew broke into the spirit...
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  • Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (8 March 1789 – 2 March 1868) was a British nobleman, naval officer, peer, politician, and the seventh Baron Byron, in 1824...
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    Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was...
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    John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (26 April 1835 – 22 November 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates...
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  • and "the Devil Byron". Byron was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, and his wife the Hon. Frances Berkeley, a descendant of John Berkeley, 1st...
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    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and...
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  • Sir John Byron (1562–1623) of Colwick and Newstead, Nottinghamshire, and Clayton, Lancashire, was a Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1597. Byron...
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    literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don...
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  • a younger brother of John Byron, 1st Baron Byron and Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron, and a grandson of Sir John Byron. Byron's family had interests in...
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  • Sir John Byron (1488–1567) was an English nobleman, politician, and knight of the Tudor era. He was Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1529. Byron...
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    Genesis 4:22 Genesis 5:21–22 Genesis 5:25–26 Genesis 5:28–30 Genesis 5:32 John Byron (14 February 2011). Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian...
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    British explorer John Byron who circumnavigated the globe in HMS Dolphin from 1764 to 1766. The MV Limerick was sunk off Cape Byron in 1943. The Cape...
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    Maria Leigh (née Byron; 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851) was the only surviving daughter of John "Mad Jack" Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his...
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    at first erroneously credited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the author was Polidori. John William Polidori was born on 7 September...
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    1921 – 18 January 2009), known professionally as Kathleen Byron, was an English actress. Byron was born Kathleen Elizabeth Fell in Manor Park (then part...
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  • Vice-Admiral John Byron, 18th-century British explorer John Byron (died 1623), 16th-century English knight, father of 1st Baron Byron John Byron (died 1600)...
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    the principal field armies of the Royalists and Parliamentarians. Sir John Byron was escorting a Royalist convoy of valuables from Oxford to King Charles's...
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    voyages of the previously mentioned John Byron (1764–1765), Samuel Wallis (1766, in the same HMS Dolphin which Byron had earlier sailed in) and Louis Antoine...
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    Newstead Abbey (category Lord Byron)
    apart when his heir eloped with his cousin Juliana Byron, daughter of William's brother John Byron. Though late 18th-century gossip attested that he ruined...
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    Port Egmont on Saunders Island by Captain John Byron; the latter settlement being expanded by British captain John MacBride a year later. Whether or not the...
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