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See also: BYRON, HON . See also:JOHN (1723–1786), See also:British See also:vice-See also:admiral, second son of the 4th See also:Lord Byron, and grandfather of the poet, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:November 1723. While still very See also:young, he accompanied See also:Anson in his voyage of See also:discovery See also:round the See also:world. During many successive years he saw a See also:great See also:deal of hard service, and so constantly had he to contend, on his various expeditions, with adverse See also:gales and dangerous storms, that he was nicknamed by the sailors, " Foul-See also:weather See also:Jack." It is to this that Lord Byron alludes in his See also:Epistle to See also:Augusta:
" A See also:strange See also:doom is thy See also:father's son's, and past
Recalling as it lies beyond redress,
Reversed for him our grandsite's See also:fate of yore,
He had no See also:rest at See also:sea, nor I on See also:shore."
Among his other expeditions was that to See also:Louisburg in 176o, where he was sent in command of a See also:squadron to destroy the fortifications. And in 1764 in the " See also:Dolphin " he went for a prolonged cruise in the See also:South Seas. In 1768 he published a Narrative of some of his See also:early adventures with Anson, which was to some extent utilized by his See also:grandson in See also:Don Juan. In 1769 he was appointed See also:governor of See also:Newfoundland. In 1775 he
attained his See also:flag See also:rank, and in 1778 became a vice-admiral. In the same See also:year he was despatched with a See also:fleet to See also:watch the movements of the See also:Count d'See also:Estaing, and in See also:July 1779 fought an indecisive engagement with him off See also:Grenada. He soon after returned to See also:England, retiring into private See also:life, and died on the loth of See also:April 1786.
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