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4 giorni fa · His grandson, John Byng, esq. (whose eldest son, George, was created lord viscount Torrington, and was direct ancestor of the present lord viscount Torrington) succeeded him in his possessions here, which he, soon after the death of king Charles I. alienated to William James, esq. of Ightham-court, at which time he had likewise an ...
5 giorni fa · Thomas Corbett, of the family of Corbet of Moreton Corbet, accompanied Sir George Byng, Viscount Torrington, as secretary on the latter's expedition to Sicily in 1718–20, and afterwards published an account of it. In 1723 he was appointed chief clerk of the Admiralty, and gradually rose in position, becoming senior secretary in 1742.
3 giorni fa · The route is described in The Compleat Angler and was probably that taken by John Byng, later Viscount Torrington, in 1789 when he travelled from Ashbourne via Alstonefield village to visit the copper mines at Ecton, in Wetton.
1 giorno fa · Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781108163927; 264pp.; Price: £75.00. At the end of December 1756, Admiral John Byng was put on trial for breaching the Articles of War, instructions set out by the Royal Navy in 1749 to establish and regulate martial behaviour.
1 giorno fa · Pages 616-625. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 13, Addenda.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1915.
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 ...
3 giorni fa · George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington: 1724–1734: Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington: 1734–1742: Arthur Onslow: 1742: Thomas Clutterbuck: 1742–1743: Sir Charles Wager: 1743–1744: Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet: 1744–1749: George Bubb Dodington: 1749–1754: Henry Legge: 1754–1756: George Grenville: 1756: George Bubb ...
