John Byron
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Vice-Admiral of the White John Byron was a Royal Navy officer, explorer, and colonial administrator. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the British press due to his frequent encounters with
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1759
Wreck of the Wager
The mythical Pepys Island, which Byron searched for in 1764–1765. Illustration by William Hacke, 1699.
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Lord Byron
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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known
John Byron
…battles of the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, and rose to vice admiral before he died in 1786. His grandsons include the poet Lord Byron and the admiral and explorer George Byron, 7th Baron Byron. One of Byron's great-granddaughters was the mathematician and pioneer in informatics Ada…
Portrait of Lord Byron, c. 1813
An engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown
Catherine Gordon, Byron's mother, by Thomas Stewardson
John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare