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John Byron fue el sexto hijo de William Byron, 4.º Barón de Byron de Rochdale (1669/70-1736), y el tercer hijo (segundo hijo) que William Byron tuvo con su segunda esposa, Frances Berkeley. Era conocido como el Foul-weather Jack («Jack Mal Tiempo»), debido a su frecuente mala suerte con el clima. Entró en la Marina Real en 1731, a la edad ...
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.As a midshipman, he sailed in the squadron under George Anson on his voyage around the world, though Byron's ship, HMS Wager, made it only to southern Chile, where it was wrecked.
6 de abr. de 2024 · 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.. The second son of the 4th Baron Byron, he was a midshipman on board the Wager in 1741 when it was wrecked off the coast of Chile during George Anson’s voyage round the world.
Other articles where John Byron is discussed: Lord Byron: Life and career: …the handsome and profligate Captain John (“Mad Jack”) Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. After her husband had squandered most of her fortune, Mrs. Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meagre income; the captain died in France…
Datos biográficos Familia Retrato de Catherine Gordon, madre de lord Byron, obra de Thomas Stewardson.. Byron fue hijo del capitán John Byron «Mad Jack» y de su segunda esposa, lady Catherine Gordon.Su abuelo fue John Byron, también llamado «Foulweather» (‘Mal tiempo’), vicealmirante británico que navegó por todo el mundo.Su padre, John Byron, falleció en 1791 en la localidad de ...
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron (born c. 1600—died Aug. 23, 1652, Paris, France) was an English Cavalier and Royalist during the Civil Wars.. He was the eldest son of Sir John Byron (d. 1625), a member of an old Lancashire family which had settled at Newstead, near Nottingham. During the third decade of the 17th century Byron was member of Parliament for the town and afterward for the county of ...
John Byron. 1723-1786. British Explorer and Naval Admiral. After the exploration of Australia and New Zealand by Dutchman Abel Tasman (c. 1603-1659), a feverish period of sea exploration began, setting the stage for a surge in European colonialism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since Ferdinand Magellan's (1480?-1521) first circumnavigation in 1520, the globe had been circled ...
