George Byng
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- George Byng, 1st Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 1st Viscount TorringtonAdmiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, KB PC was a British naval officer and statesman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His career included service as First Lord of the Admiralty during the reign of King George II.-Naval career:Byng was born at Wrotham, Kent, England...
(1663–1733) - George Byng, 3rd Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 3rd Viscount TorringtonMajor General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington , styled The Honourable from 1721 to 1747, was a British Army officer and peer. He was the son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. He married Elizabeth Daniel, granddaughter of Sir Peter Daniel, on 21 August 1736...
(1701–1750) - George Byng (d. 1789), British Member of Parliament
- George Byng (1764–1847)George Byng (1764–1847)George Byng DL JP , of Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, was a British Whig politician.-Background:Byng was the son of George Byng, son of the Hon. Robert Byng, third son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington...
, British Member of Parliament, son of the above - George Byng, 4th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 4th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng was the 4th Viscount Torrington, son of George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington and Elizabeth Daniel.He gained the title 4th Viscount Torrington at the death of his father in 1750....
(1740–1812) - George Byng, 6th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 6th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy. His son, the seventh Viscount, served as Governor of Ceylon between 1847 and 1850....
(1768–1831) - George Byng, 2nd Earl of StraffordGeorge Byng, 2nd Earl of StraffordGeorge Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, PC , styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background, education and military career:...
(1806–1886) - George Byng, 7th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 7th Viscount TorringtonGeorge Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington , was a British colonial administrator and courtier.Torrington was the son of Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington, and succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1831 at the age of eighteen. In 1847 he was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he...
(1812–1884) - George Byng, 3rd Earl of StraffordGeorge Byng, 3rd Earl of StraffordGeorge Henry Charles Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford , styled Viscount Enfield between 1860 and 1886, was a British Liberal politician.-Background and education:...
(1830–1898) - George Stanley Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington (1841–1889)
- George Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington (1886–1944)