George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington

Quick Facts

Intro

Royal Navy admiral

From

Great Britain United Kingdom

was

Navy officer Military leader Admiral Noble

Work field

Military Royals

Gender

Male

Birth

1768

Death

1831 (aged 63 years)

Age

63 years

Family

Mother:

Bridget Forrest

Father:

John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington

Siblings:

Frederick Gerald Byng

Children:

George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington Lucy Elizabeth Byng Hilare Caroline Byng Robert Barlow Palmer Byng James Master Owen Byng Russell John Morris Byng

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Arms of Byng: Quarterly sable and argent in the first quarter a lion rampant of the second

Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831), Royal Navy, commanded HMS Cumberland, the ship which returned King William III to the Netherlands from his exile in London, for which service he was appointed by the king to the Military Order of William.

Marriages & progeny

He married twice:

Firstly on 8 February 1793 to Elizabeth Langmead (d. 1810).
Secondly on 5 October 1811 to Frances Harriet Barlow (d. 1868), by whom he had progeny including:
- George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (1812-1884), eldest son and heir, a British diplomat who served as Governor of Ceylon between 1847 and 1850.
- Hilare Caroline Byng (1815-1889), who married William Hutcheon Hall in 1845

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