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John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (18 February 1743 – 8 January 1813), styled for most of his lifetime The Hon. John Byng (before 1812), was one of the most notable of English eighteenth-century diarists. His fifteen extant diaries cover the years 1781–1794, describing his travels on horseback throughout England and Wales during the summers of twelve of those years. ==Family== The younger son of George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington, of Southill, Bedfordshire, he succeeded his brother, George, as 5th Viscount on 14 December 1812 〔''The Complete Peerage'', 1982, vol. 5, p. 793.〕 but died before he had the opportunity of being introduced in the House of Lords. The family seat having been sold in his elder brother's lifetime for the repayment of debt, John Byng was thus a Viscount without an estate. He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, George, who took his seat in the House of Lords on 3 February 1813.〔HL Journal 53 Geo. III XLIX 47a.〕 Byng was a great-uncle of the politician, Lord John Russell. On 3 March 1767, he married Bridget Forrest,〔(www.thepeerage.com )〕 daughter of Commodore Arthur Forrest RN (d. 1770) and Juliana Frederica Marina Cecila Lynch (1722–1804). The marriage produced 14 children, 13 of whom survived infancy: * George Byng (6 June 1768 – 18 June 1831). He married Elizabeth Langmead (d. 1810) on 8 February 1793 and Frances Harriet Barlow (d. 1868) on 5 October 1811. George succeeded his father as Viscount Torrington on 3 February 1813. * Elizabeth Lucy Byng (15 August 1770 – 18 January 1846), married Rear-Admiral Percy Fraser RN (d. 9 December 1827) on 26 September 1797 and George Goodenough Lynn on 10 August 1836. * Cecilia Elizabeth Byng (b. 15 August 1770), married J. Robert Gregge-Hopwood on 31 October 1805. They lived at Hopwood Hall, Middleton, Lancashire; they were friends of Lord Byron and the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was partly written while he stayed with them in 1811. * Anna Maria Bridget Byng (18 August 1771 – 30 October 1852), married Charles Henry Hall (1763–1827) on 29 August 1794. Hall was an ecclesiastic who served in several prominent positions in the Church of England. * Frances Byng (d. November 1796). * Edmund John Byng (1774–1854). * John Byng (d. 23 November 1811), married Amelia Mayne on 5 November 1806. * Bridget Augusta Forrest Byng (d. 4 May 1876), married Captain the Hon. Charles Herbert RN (5 July 1774 – 12 September 1808) in July 1806. * Henry Dilkes Byng (d. 24 September 1860), married Maria Jane Clarke on 2 October 1810. * Frederick Gerald Byng (4 December 1784 – 1876), known as 'Poodle Byng'. A Regency society dandy who served as a Page of Honour to George, Prince of Wales, held commissions in the Army, and worked in the Foreign Office. In his later life he became actively involved in the campaign to improve sanitation in London.〔(www.historyhome.co.uk )〕 * Georgiana Byng (d. 23 July 1856), married the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby. * Beatrice Charlotte Byng (d. 12 March 1848), married the Rev. Colin Alexander Campbell on 30 November 1820. * Lucy Juliana Byng (d. 1851), married Sir John Morris, Bt., on 5 October 1809. * A stillborn child, sex not recorded, born in 1794. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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