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HON See also: JOHN (1723–1786),
See also: British See also: vice-See also: admiral, second son of the 4th See also: Lord See also: Byron, and grandfather of the poet, was See also: born on the 8th of See also: November 1723
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While still very See also: young, he accompanied Anson in his voyage of See also: discovery 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-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 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 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 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 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 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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