Earl of Strafford
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Earl of Strafford is a title that has been created three times in English and British history.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the first creation)
Diesel locomotive No 2895 Earl of Strafford of the Elsecar Heritage Railway
Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford 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
Earl of Strafford
…became extinct on his death in 1799. The title was created for a third time in 1847 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, when the prominent soldier John Byng, 1st Baron Strafford, was made Viscount Enfield, of Enfield in the County of Middlesex, and Earl of Strafford. He had already been created Baron Strafford, of Harmondsworth…
Portrait by William Salter, 1834–1840
Wellington at Sorauren by Thomas Jones Barker. The Battle of the Pyrenees: Byng's stubborn resistance at Roncesvalles allowed the Viscount Wellington (shown on horseback in the painting) to consolidate enough troops to defeat the French at the Battle of the Pyrenees