Byng, John, 5th Viscount Torrington, 1742-1813

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Byng, John, 5th Viscount Torrington, 1742-1813

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Dates of existence

1742-1813

History

BYNG, JOHN, 5TH VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, brother of George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (qv); b. 11 Oct 1742; at school under Markham (list of noblemen educated at the School preserved in Chapter Muniments); Page of Honour to King George II 25 Jan 1753 - Mar 1760; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards, 11 Jan 1760; Capt., 58th Foot, 29 Feb 1762; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards, 11 Aug 1762; Capt. -Lieut., 19 Feb 1776; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 26 Apr 1776; retd. 18 May 1780; a Commissioner of Stamps, 1 Jun 1782-99; succeeded his brother as 5th Viscount Torrington 14 Dec 1812; his travel diaries for the years 1781-94 have been published as The Torrington Diaries, 4 vols.; m. 16 Mar 1767 Bridget, dau. of Commodore Arthur Forrest, Royal Navy, sometime Commander in Chief, Jamaica station; d. 1 Jan 1813. DNB Missing Persons.

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Beneficiary of 'slave-property' under marriage settlement to Bridget Forrest in 1767, records make it clear that enslaved people were explictly part of the settlement: 'Includes a list of the names of slave men, women and children.'

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Byng, George, ca. 1741-1812 (ca. 1741-1812)

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GB-2014-WSA-04298

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family

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Byng, George, ca. 1741-1812

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Byng, John, 5th Viscount Torrington, 1742-1813

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Hall, Charles Henry, ca. 1763-1827 (ca. 1763-1827)

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GB-2014-WSA-08464

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family

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Hall, Charles Henry, ca. 1763-1827

is the son in law of

Byng, John, 5th Viscount Torrington, 1742-1813

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GB-2014-WSA-01387

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GB 2014

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, September 2020

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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146659577

Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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