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4 giorni fa · George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, was born in 1663. His career at first wavered between the army and the navy, and he actually held commissions in both services. In 1688 he was entrusted with the task of canvassing the navy captains in the interests of the Prince of Orange, and obtained the latter's goodwill.
2 giorni fa · George Byng, esq. his eldest son, by his first wife, succeeded him in this manor, and was of Wrotham. He demised it in lease, for the term of ninety-nine years, to Sir Robert Darell, of Calehill, in trust for particular uses, and died possessed of the fee of it in 1616.
4 giorni fa · Sir William Smith presented in 1738 and 1739 and Smith King in 1770, whilst in 1787 the advowson belonged to George Byng, fourth Lord Torrington, who sold it in 1795 to Samuel Whitbread (who consolidated the vicarage of Old Warden with that of Southill).
1 giorno fa · The Queen also appointed trustees to whom the funds were transferred— Viscount Torrington, Phipps, Spearman and the ex-Lord Mayor, Cubitt. (fn. 114) The executive committee's secretary was an official of the privy purse, Doyne C. Bell, who possessed considerable self-confidence respecting the aesthetic aspects of the memorial which he was not afraid to exercise.
1 giorno fa · Middlesex was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, then of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until abolished in 1885. It returned two members per election by various voting systems including hustings.
20 ore fa · The move to London and publication of Anatomy was a turning-point in George’s life. At 36 years old, he suddenly found himself with patrons – from Viscounts Torrington and Bollingbroke, the Dukes of Grafton, Richmond and Portland and the Marquis of Rockingham – queuing up to support him.
1 giorno fa · Viscount Hood in Peerage of Great Britain. Baron Loughborough: 31 October 1795 Earl of Rosslyn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [note 2] Baron Rous: 28 May 1796 Earl of Stradbroke in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Baron Brodrick: 1 June 1796 George Brodrick, Viscount Midleton, MP: His descendants sat in the House of Lords until 1999 ...
