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    Admiral John Byng (baptised 29 October 1704 – 14 March 1757) was a British Royal Navy officer who was court-martialled and executed by firing squad. After...
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  • Admiral Byng may refer to: Admiral John Byng (1704–1757), British admiral, shot by sentence of a court martial Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington...
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  • Manor of Byng, Suffolk, England John Byng (disambiguation), several people with the same name, including: John Byng (1704–1757), British admiral, sentenced...
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    house was designed by Isaac Ware in 1754 for Admiral John Byng, the fourth son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, and remains in the family...
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  • John Byng may refer to: John Byng (1704–1757), British Admiral in the Seven Years' War, executed for "fail[ing] to do his utmost" John Byng, 5th Viscount...
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  • English Admiral John Byng. It is also the name of the body of water, on which the village is situated, on the south shore of the Byng Inlet a widening...
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    Middlesex, in 1833. John Byng was the second son of George Byng (c.1735-1789), son the Hon. Robert Byng (1703–1740), third son of George Byng, 1st Viscount...
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    Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who...
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  • John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford. Byng was the brother of Admiral John Byng and Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington. Matthews, Shirley (1970). "Byng...
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    Portrait of Admiral Byng is a 1749 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Hudson. It depicts the British admiral John Byng. Byng served in the Royal...
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  • Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) and Anna Maria Bridget Byng (1771–1852), daughter of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington. He was christened at Christ Church...
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    the end of the 18th century to industrialist Samuel Whitbread. Admiral John Byng is buried in All Saints Church, which is a 14th and 15th century church...
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    the flagship of Admiral John Byng when he failed to relieve Port Mahon and so lost the island of Minorca to the French. Byng was later controversially...
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    created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along with the subsidiary title Baron Byng, of Southill in the County of Bedford, also...
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  • General Byng may refer to: George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (1701–1750), British Army major general John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772–1860),...
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    Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford GCB, GCH, PC (Ire) (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior...
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  • Commodore Governor (1739–1740) Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1741) John Byng, Commodore Governor (1742) Thomas Smith, Commodore Governor (1743) Charles...
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    London, was a British peer and Whig politician. Byng was the eldest son of Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772–1860) by his first wife...
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    Elizabeth Byng (1760–1844), who married Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford, in 1788. Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng (1768–1801), who married John Russell...
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    the officer who signed the warrant authorising the execution of Admiral John Byng in 1757, for failing to engage the enemy at the Battle of Minorca (1756)...
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    controversial court-martial and execution of the British commander, Admiral John Byng, for "failure to do his utmost" to relieve the siege of the British garrison...
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    The King–Byng affair was a Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred in 1926, when the governor general of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request...
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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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  • Viscount Torrington (1812–1884), Governor of Ceylon from 1847 to 1850 John Byng (1704–1757), Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland Colony in 1742 This disambiguation...
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    Suffolk and Essex aboard the 40-gun Hastings. In February 1746 he replaced John Byng as Commander-in-Chief, Leith, a position he stayed in until January 1747...
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    uncle Admiral John Byng (1704-1757), famously court-martialled and shot in 1757 following the fall of Minorca. At the 1768 general election Byng was elected...
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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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  • Alastair John Mackenzie (born 8 February 1970) is a Scottish actor and writer. Alastair Mackenzie was born in Trinafour, near Perth, and educated at Westbourne...
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    William John Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford KCVO CB (21 August 1831 – 16 May 1899) was a British peer and courtier. Byng was the second son of George Byng, 2nd...
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    Marie Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy (née Moreton; 11 January 1870 – 20 June 1949), also known as Lady Byng, was the wife of Lord Byng, the 12th Governor...
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