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BYRON, JOHN, naval officer and governor of Newfoundland; sometimes called Foul-weather Jack for the storms his ships so often endured; b. 8 Nov. 1723, second son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, and his third wife Frances Berkeley; m. 8 Sept. 1748 Sophia Trevannion, and they had two sons and seven daughters; d. 10 April 1786 in London ...
Sir John, First Baron Byron of Rochdale (b. 1598/1599 – d. 1652) Sir John Byron, painted by Dobson, c.16431 Sir John, first Baron Byron of Rochdale was a prominent Royalist officer during the British Civil Wars. He comes from a long line of John Byrons, he being the sixth Sir John. The family owned large estates in Lancashire and ...
naval officer and explorer, was born on 8 November 1723, the second son of William, fourth Baron Byron and his third wife Frances, née Berkeley. He joined the Navy in 1737, and as a midshipman sailed in the ill-fated Wager on ANSON 's voyage round the world in 1740-44. In May 1741 the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of ...
Byron was the son of the handsome and profligate Captain John (“Mad Jack”) Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. After her husband had squandered most of her fortune, Mrs. Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meagre income; the captain died in France in 1791.
Captain John Byron (7 February 1756 – 2 August 1791) was a British Army officer, best known as the father of poet Lord Byron. Byron was the son of Vice-Admiral Hon. John Byron and Sophia Trevanion[1] and grandson of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron of Rochdale. He was educated at Westminster School. He gained the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards.[2] Captain John Byron also went by the ...
31 mar 2024 · John Byron. John Byron hailed from distinguished nobility, belonging to “one of the oldest lines in England.” Despite the aristocratic stigma against naval service, he joined the navy because he wasn’t in line to inherit his family’s aristocratic title, and he was drawn to the romanticized life at sea.
20 apr 2024 · Byron’s interest in the periodical gradually waned, but he continued to support Hunt and to give manuscripts to The Liberal. After a quarrel with his publisher, John Murray, Byron gave all his later work, including cantos VI to XVI of Don Juan (1823–24), to Leigh Hunt’s brother John, publisher of The Liberal.
