Viscount Torrington is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The Peerage was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along...
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Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, KB, PC (27 January 1663 – 17 January 1733), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a Royal Navy...
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writer John Torrington, English explorer and Royal Navy stoker George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, British naval officer and statesman Torrington, New South...
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George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (11 October 1740 – 14 December 1812) was an English peer. He was the eldest son and heir of Major-General George...
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Rochester George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663–1733), Royal Navy officer and statesman George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (1701–1750), British Army...
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George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (9 September 1812 – 27 April 1884), was a British colonial administrator and courtier. Torrington was the son of Vice-Admiral...
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George Stanley Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington (29 April 1841 – 20 October 1889), known as George Byng until 1884, was a British Conservative politician...
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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1668–1733), the first of several Viscounts Torrington Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington Byng (disambiguation)...
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among Viscounts is: Viscounts in the Peerage of England Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Viscounts in the...
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Byng, 11th Viscount Torrington, born 13 July 1943, is a British peer. He succeeded his grandfather, Arthur Byng, 10th Viscount Torrington (1876–1961)...
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became extinct upon the death of the first earl in 1716. See Duke of Albemarle Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington (1648–1716) Viscount Torrington...
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John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (18 February 1743 – 8 January 1813), previously styled The Hon. John Byng for most of his lifetime (until 1812), was...
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several Viscounts Torrington, most notably: George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1668–1733), British Admiral and statesman Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng...
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Robert Byng (Plymouth MP) (category Younger sons of viscounts)
baptised on 27 November 1703, the third son of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington and his wife Margaret Master. He married Elizabeth Forward, daughter...
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Major General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (21 September 1701 – 7 April 1750) (styled The Honourable George Byng from 1721 to 1747), of Southill...
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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British prime...
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Duff Cooper (redirect from Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick)
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician...
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Earl of Strafford (redirect from Viscount Enfield)
the Hon. Robert Byng (1703-1740), third son of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1663-1733). John Byng's mother was Anne Conolly, whose mother was...
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for Admiral John Byng, the fourth son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, and remains in the family at the heart of a 2,500-acre (10 km2)...
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and the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington. Her siblings included Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath; Elizabeth...
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Captain Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington, PC (25 May 1699 – 23 January 1747), was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough Great-Grandson of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington 3rd son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough Eldest son...
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unpopularity and Lord Grey retired; the home secretary, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, replaced him. Melbourne retained most Cabinet members, and his...
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Viscountess Torrington (1705 – 17 February 1759), formerly Lady Charlotte Montagu, was the wife of Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington. She was the...
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Duke of Bedford, and Georgiana Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington. The Russell family had been one of the principal Whig dynasties...
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or UK public library membership required.) "Byng, George, first Viscount Torrington". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University...
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Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington and the latter's brother George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington to George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington, who sold the...
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Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington DCL FRS (5 January 1768–18 June 1831), Royal Navy, commanded HMS Cumberland, the ship which returned...
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the British colonial government under Governor George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington. It marked a transition from the classic feudal form of anti-colonial...
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(1705–1759), who married Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington, the eldest son of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester...
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