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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.
Captain John Byron (1757 – 2 August 1791) was a British Army officer and letter writer, best known as the father of the poet Lord Byron.
George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis. Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Lord Byron (born January 22, 1788, London, England—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece) was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.
Feb 26, 2024 · Two centuries after his death, the works of the great Romantic poet reveal a sensibility whose restless meld of humor and melancholy feels thoroughly contemporary. By Anthony Lane. February 26 ...
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.
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.
BYRON, JOHN. (1723–1786). British admiral. Second son of the fourth baron Byron, and later father of the poet, George Gordon Byron, John Byron was born on 8 November 1723. He entered the navy in 1737 and later took part in Captain George Anson' s voyage to the Pacific.
