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5 giorni fa · 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.
4 giorni fa · The same year Thomas Newport, second son of the Earl of Bradford, was created Baron Torrington: he died in 1719 without issue; and in 1720 Sir George Byng was created Viscount Torrington, which title is still enjoyed by his descendant.
3 giorni fa · Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy (born Sept. 11, 1862, Wrotham Park, Middlesex, Eng.—died June 6, 1935, Thorpe Hall, Essex) was a British field marshal and a commander in World War I. A career soldier from 1883, Byng was promoted to major general in 1909.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 giorni fa · Hill Manor remained in the possession of the Byng family, belonging in 1762 to George Viscount Torrington, grandson of Sir George Byng, who in that year suffered recovery, but by 1824 it had passed to Robert third Lord Ongley, owner of Old Warden Park, after which its identity as a manor has not been preserved, though its name ...
3 giorni fa · Russell was born on 18 August 1792 into the highest echelons of the British aristocracy, being the third son of John Russell, later 6th Duke of Bedford, and Georgiana Byng, daughter of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington.
2 giorni fa · From the King – “Varmer George” – who contributed to the Agricultural Magazine under the pseudonym of Robinson and carried a copy of Arthur young’s Farmer’s Letters on all his journeys – to Parson Woodforde, who recorded daily his horticultural activities and his observations on the weather, the pursuit of husbandry gripped their eminently practical minds.
3 giorni fa · Byng of Southill: 15 November 1715 Viscount Torrington: 297: Milner of Nun-Appleton Hall: 26 February 1717 298: Elton of Bristol: 31 October 1717 299: Blunt of London: 17 June 1720 300: Codrington of Dodington: 21 April 1721 302: Frederick of Burwood House: 10 June 1723 304: Hill, now Clegg-Hill of Hawkstone: 20 January 1727 Viscount ...
