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Viscount Torrington is a title in the
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History

The Peerage was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along with the subsidiary title Baron Byng, of Southill in the County of Bedford, also in the Peerage of Great Britain. He had already been created a
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, of Wrotham in the County of Kent, in the
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in 1715. His eldest son, the second Viscount, represented
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and
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in the
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and later served as
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from 1746 to 1747. His younger brother, the third Viscount, was a major-general in the Army. His grandson, the sixth Viscount, was a
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in the
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. His son, the seventh Viscount, served as
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between 1847 and 1850. On his death the titles passed to his nephew, the eighth Viscount, the son of Honourable Robert Barlow Palmer Byng, third son of the sixth Viscount. He was succeeded by his son, the ninth Viscount. However, this line of the family failed on his death in 1944 and the titles passed to the late Viscount's first cousin, the tenth Viscount. As of 2013 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded on his grandfather's death in 1961. Several other members of the Byng family have also gained distinction. The Hon. Robert Byng, third son of the first Viscount, was Member of Parliament for Plymouth. He was the father of George Byng, radical Member of Parliament for
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. He was the father of George Byng,
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, and
John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became Commanding Officer of ...
. The soldier Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was the youngest son of the second Earl of Strafford. Admiral the Hon.
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, who was controversially court-martialled and shot in 1757, was the fourth son of the first Viscount Torrington. He was the only British admiral ever executed after a court-martial. The family seat is Great Hunts Place, near
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,
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. The traditional burial place of the Viscounts Torrington is the Byng Vault at the Church of All Saints,
Southill, Bedfordshire Southill is a rural village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England; about south-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census showed the population for the civil parish as 1,192. The ...
. Other notable members of the family were Captain Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945), sinologist and translator of ancient Chinese poetry, and his brother, author and playwright Hugh Edward Cranmer-Byng (1873–1949).


Viscounts Torrington (1721)

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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, (27 January 1663 – 17 January 1733) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who represented Plymouth in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1721. While still a lieu ...
(1663–1733) * Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington (1699–1747) *
George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington Major General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (21 September 1701 – 7 April 1750) (styled ''The Honourable George Byng'' from 1721 to 1747), of Southill Park in Bedfordshire, was a British Army officer and peer. Origins He was the 2nd sur ...
(1701–1750) * George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington (1740–1812) * John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (1743–1813) * George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831) * George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (1812–1884) * George Stanley Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington (1841–1889) * George Master Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington (1886–1944) * Arthur Stanley Byng, 10th Viscount Torrington (1876–1961) * Timothy Howard St George Byng, 11th Viscount Torrington (born 1943) The
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is the present holder's fifth cousin Colin Hugh Cranmer-Byng (born 1960).
The heir presumptive's
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is his son eldest John Nicholas Cranmer-Byng (born 1990).


See also

* Earl of Strafford (1847 creation) * Viscount Byng of Vimy


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Torrington Viscountcies in the Peerage of Great Britain Noble titles created in 1721 Byng family