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Vice-Admiral John Byron (8 November 1723 – 1 April 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname " Foul-Weather Jack " in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. [1]
John Byron (born Nov. 8, 1723—died April 10, 1786, England) was a British admiral, whose account (1768) of a shipwreck in South America was to some extent used by his grandson, the poet Lord Byron, in Don Juan.
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BYRON, JOHN, naval officer and governor of Newfoundland; sometimes called Foul-weather Jack for the storms his ships so often endured; b. 8 Nov. 1723, second son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, and his third wife Frances Berkeley; m.
John Byron. British officer. Also known as: Mad Jack Byron. Learn about this topic in these articles: relationship to Lord Byron. In Lord Byron: Life and career. …the handsome and profligate Captain John (“Mad Jack”) Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress.
Admiral John Byron of the British Navy, sent to find the elusive "southern continent," discovered the Falkland Islands as well as many other smaller islands in what would be the fastest circumnavigation at the time. Born into a family of Navy men, Lord Byron began his naval career in 1731 at age nine, when he became a midshipman.
In 1764, John Byron (1723-1786) left England in command of a two-ship expedition to circle the globe. He returned slightly less than two years later, having set a record for the fastest circumnavigation to date, and the first commander to circle the globe without losing a ship.
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Learn about the life and career of Hon. John Byron, the grandfather of the poet Lord Byron, who survived the wreck of the Wager in 1741 and rose to become a commodore in the Royal Navy. Read about his adventures, captures, promotions and death in this comprehensive biography.
