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  John Byron - LoveToKnow 1911
John BYRON (1723-1786), British vice-admiral, second son of the 4th Lord Byron, and grandfather of the poet, was born on the 8th of November 1723.
While still very young, he accompanied Anson in his voyage of discovery round the world.
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www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Byron   (160 words)

  
 John Byron Summary
The expedition, under the command of John Byron (grandfather to the poet), was charged with exploring the Pacific Ocean in order to help Britain gain and maintain an advantage over her Continental rivals.
Byron was the second son of the 4th Baron Byron.
Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors had to make their way by boat to Rio de Janeiro.
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 Lord Byron
Byron was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs with women and Mediterranean boys.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife.
Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815, and their daughter Ada was born in the same year.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /byron.htm   (1357 words)

  
 john byron dot net
John Byron is a sinologist and researcher who spends much of his professional and personal life exploring and writing about Chinese society, culture and politics, and the impact of the outside world on the Chinese experience.
Byron's collection of erotica that was the basis of Portrait of a Chinese Paradise has expanded considerably since the state controls over art and cultural life have loosened up and Chinese have once again begun to reflect their sexual tastes in art and decorative bric a brac.
John Byron has also written occasional verse --- none of which qualifies as poetry --- evolving from the romantic yearnings of a university student and maturing into sarcastic little quatrains and limericks about contemporary politics and academia, many of which were written while listening to pompous speakers at conferences on international security and diplomatic relations.
www.johnbyron.net /index.html   (305 words)

  
 Lord George Gordon Byron - Biography and Works
Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon.
Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten.
www.online-literature.com /byron   (1460 words)

  
  Sir John, Lord Byron 1599-1652
Byron also distinguished himself at the first battle of Newbury in September 1643, where his cavalry succeeded in gaining the summit of the Parliamentarian position on Round Hill before being driven back through lack of infantry support.
Early in 1644, Byron besieged Nantwich, Parliament's last remaining stronghold in Cheshire, but Sir Thomas Fairfax crossed the Pennines and joined forces with Brereton to raise the siege and inflict a decisive defeat on Byron at the battle of Nantwich (25 January 1644).
Byron's undisguised contempt for civilians had made him extremely unpopular and an attempt was made to assassinate him when he tried to enforce his authority on Angelsey.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/byron.htm   (1121 words)

  
 Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - Biography - John P. Byron
John's principal areas of practice were in the areas of trusts and estates, closely held corporations, health law, and business planning, but his influence and reputation reached all corners of the practice of law in Minnesota.
John was one of the principal architects of mandatory Continuing Legal Education for lawyers, which is one of the cornerstones for maintaining high levels of competence and professionalism for all practicing lawyers and judges in the state.
John was also a pioneer in the development and implementation of curricula for the professional education of paralegals in Minnesota.
fredlaw.com /bios/attorneys/byronjohn   (193 words)

  
 Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - John Byron
John's principal areas of practice were in the areas of trusts and estates, closely held corporations, health law, and business planning, but his influence and reputation reached all corners of the practice of law in Minnesota.
John was one of the principal architects of mandatory Continuing Legal Education for lawyers, which is one of the cornerstones for maintaining high levels of competence and professionalism for all practicing lawyers and judges in the state.
John was also a pioneer in the development and implementation of curricula for the professional education of paralegals in Minnesota.
www.fredlaw.com /bios/attorneys/byronjohn   (197 words)

  
 Byron Bay Accommodation at Cape Heritage Holiday House
John is today one of Australia’s foremost environmental artists, and his dynamic sculptures and beautiful ‘assemblages’, all made entirely from found materials painstakingly gathered from Australia’s beaches, have won numerous awards and exhibited nationally and internationally.
John says it was the spectacular natural environment and the creative, energetic spirit of the people in Byron that attracted him here after 25 years spent in big cities such as Melbourne, New York, Amsterdam and London.
John’s own house, Cape Heritage, is a testament to the creative vision of the artist and the love and care that he and his wife have put into the property.
capeheritage.com.au   (1453 words)

  
 John Byron, 1769-1771: Government House
John Byron was born in England on November 8, 1723 and entered the Royal Navy in 1731.
Byron commanded a squadron in 1760 at Louisbourg, destroying the French fortifications there and in the Bay of Chaleur.
He heard complaints from the French and the English about their interference with each other's fisheries, but was not as hard on French vessels found outside treaty limits as his predecessor, Palliser.
www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governors/g23.html   (276 words)

  
 John Byron
In December 1643 Byron was appointed Field Marshall General in North Wales.
During the war Byron developed a reputation for impetuous cavalry attacks and was blamed for the Royalist defeat at Marston Moor
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, died in 1652.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUbyronJ.htm   (149 words)

  
 Byron Bay Online Guide. John Byron, Grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron
John Byron, Grandfather of the poet, Lord Byron
Byron Bay was named by Captain James Cook on 15 May 1770, after John Byron, a navigator and the grandfather of the poet Lord Byron.
of the 4th Lord Byron, and grandfather of the poet, was born on the 8th of November 1723.
www.byronbay-online.com /Byron/lord_byron.html   (298 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Byron was separated from the rest of his squadron, which had been joined by the Repulse (32 guns), so that between 22 and 26 June the Fame sounded her way alone up an extremely narrow unmarked channel in the Baie des Chaleurs in search of the French vessels.
Byron was, however, less severe on French vessels found fishing outside treaty limits, and his relations with d’Angeac, the governor of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, were smoother than those between Palliser and d’Angeac.
Byron was succeeded as governor in 1772 by Commodore Molyneux Shuldham.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35909   (1164 words)

  
 John Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Byron read music at Cambridge University and is active as conductor, pianist, composer and teacher.
John has a substantial concerto repertoire and in 1998 he gave a solo recital of music by Rachmaninov in Woburn Church, complementing a performance of the composer's Vespers by the Danesborough Chorus in a concert attended by members of the Rachmaninov Society.
John was a finalist in the national competition Music for Milton Keynes in 1992, and has written a series of pieces for chorus and orchestra which have been performed by the Royal Scottish Junior Chorus, the Milton Keynes Chorale, the Danesborough Chorus and the Open University Choir.
members.aol.com /lincolnchorale/byron.html   (226 words)

  
 Lord Byron FAQ: Lord Byron's Pages (Byronmania)
While he was visiting Byron in Venice several years later, Shelley was shocked by Byron's ostentatiously erotic lifestyle and remarked in a letter to a friend in England that some of his street pick-ups had "lost the gait and physiognomy of men".
Byron's wife, Annabella, exonerated herself for having walked out on him after a year of marriage on the grounds that she believed that he had slept with Augusta.
Byron said he loved her because she was his closest relative and because she made him laugh.
www.byronmania.com /byron/faq.html   (2406 words)

  
 Lord Byron
Byron initially refused to have anything to do with Claire, and would only agree to remain in her presence with the Shelleys, who eventually persuaded Byron to accept and provide for Allegra, the child she bore him in January 1817.
Byron's story fragment was published as a postscript to Mazeppa; he also wrote the third canto of Childe Harold.
Byron employed a fire-master to prepare artillery and took part of the rebel army under his own command and pay, despite his lack of military experience.
www.members.aol.com /fantasmagoriana/html/lord_byron.html   (1817 words)

  
 Environmental art, recycled art and abstract paintings
When Australian artist John Dahlsen began his littoral walks over a decade ago, he was in some respects honouring the tradition of exploring the relation between humankind and the environment through daily, ritual, embodied interaction.
John T Spike is an internationally recognized art critic and author and director of the 2003 Florence Biennial of Contemporary Art.
John Dahlsen's work has been both commissioned for and is featured in, public and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and the United States.
www.johndahlsen.com   (680 words)

  
 George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron sent copies to two of his friends, one of whom wrote back to say that he thought the poem To Mary was far too shocking to be read by the general public.
Byron took Teresa, Countess Guicioli, as his mistress in 1819, and it was quite the scandal.
Around this time, Byron and some of his school friends were staying in a former monastery, and they'd developed a habit (sorry) of dressing up as monks and drinking toasts from a monk's skull which they'd accidentally dug up.
www.incompetech.com /authors/byron   (1767 words)

  
 John Byron Hand (Hallberg Family Data)
John married Lucille Rose Gauthier, daughter of Alfred O. Gauthier and Genevieve H. Vaillancourt, on 22 April 1944 in San Diego, San Diego, California.
John B. Hand is listed in the census as the step-son of Gustav G. Lundberg, in Winnebago, Winnebago, Illinois.
He is listed as John Byron Lundberg on the birth record of Donald Edward on File Number: 1948-MN-062325.
www.visi.com /~tth/genealogy/173.htm   (156 words)

  
 The Virtual Wall® - John Smith, HN, Navy, Butler IN, 29Aug68 45W002
John Byron Smith was a good friend of mine.
John was a "lefty" and he had a mean left hook!
Hospital Corpsman John B. Smith was assigned to HandS Company, 1/5 Marines, but was serving in the field with one of the Battalion's rifle companies.
www.virtualwall.org /ds/SmithJB01a.htm   (156 words)

  
 BYRON COMMUNITY CHURCH
Paul Furseth was called to pastor the congregation at Byron in the fall of 1982.
John's ministry as Pastor of Byron Community Church began in July 1996.
John is married to Heather and they have a daughter, Melissa, and a son, Mark.
www.byroncommunitychurch.com /byroncommunitychurch/about.htm   (254 words)

  
 The ECW Pages - Sir John Byron   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Byron commanded a regiment at Edgehill, Roundway Down and the 1st battle of Newbury.
He was then made 1st Baron Byron and appointed commander-in-chief of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Byron returned to Wales in the second war (1648) hoping to raise support for the royalist cause, but little was forthcoming.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~crossby/ECW/people/byron.html   (140 words)

  
 John Byron — FactMonster.com
Byron, John, 1723–86, British vice admiral and explorer.
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 JOHN BYRON BYRON - Online Information article about JOHN BYRON BYRON
JOHN BYRON BYRON - Online Information article about JOHN BYRON BYRON
October 1643 he was created Baron Byron of See also:
brothers served Charles I. during the Civil War, and one authority says that the seven Byrons were all present at Edgehill.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BUN_CAL/BYRON_JOHN_BYRON.html   (520 words)

  
 Lord George Gordon Byron - Books and Biography
To read literature by Lord George Gordon Byron, select from the list on the left.
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife.
To read books by Lord George Gordon Byron, select from the list on the left.
www.readprint.com /author-15/Lord-George-Gordon-Byron   (1078 words)

  
 Byron John Will - German Harpsichords and Clavichords
Byron John Will - German Harpsichords and Clavichords
Although a great deal of exceptional German harpsichord music is left to us, especially the music of J.S. Bach, very few German harpsichords have survived into modern times.
It is mentioned in many treatises, being the ideal instrument to perfect one's keyboard skills, and revered by many famous composers of the time.
www.byronwillharpsichords.com /german.html   (112 words)

  
 WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc.
Looking for family members and info on John Byron WESTGATE, born Feb. 1858.
Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. Jay Hyland 10/01/00
Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. Janice Johnson 7/29/00
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 Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc.
In Reply to: Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. by Jay Hyland
I would love to have info on Johns parents and back.
Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. Jay Hyland 10/02/00
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 Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc.
In Reply to: Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. by Sherri Golightly
I would be glad to send you the info that I have.
I have her obituary and know the names of her kids (Herman, Phyllis, etc.) but otherwise I do not have much on her or any of the vital stats for her husband and the kids....
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 Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc.
In Reply to: Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. by Janice Johnson
I tried to email you back and it was returned.
Re: WESTGATE, John Byron of Wisc. Dennis Johnson 8/01/00
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