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John Byron

1723 - 1786

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Byron has received more than 287,794 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Byron is the 234th most popular explorer (up from 255th in 2019), the 1,961st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,122nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John Byron ranks 234 out of 405. Before him are Douglas Mawson, Dinis Dias, Juan de Garay, Alexandrine Tinné, Edward Bransfield, and Carl Anton Larsen. After him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Chris McCandless, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Samuel Baker, Ma Huan, and Francis Garnier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, John Byron ranks 19. Before him are Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Antoine Louis, Mir Taqi Mir, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, William Chambers, William Blackstone, Pehr Osbeck, Marcus Elieser Bloch, and Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. Among people deceased in 1786, John Byron ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Eva Ekeblad, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, and Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. After him are Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Pierre Poivre, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Nathanael Greene.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Byron ranks 1,961 out of 7,765. Before him are Andrew Irvine (1902), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), Willehad (735), Hugh Bonneville (1963), and David Tennant (1971). After him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Bill Bruford (1949), Henry Allingham (1896), Philippa Foot (1920), Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, John Byron ranks 28. Before him are Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), and Douglas Mawson (1882). After him are Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Richard Chancellor (1521), Francis Crozier (1796), and Alexander Dalrymple (1737).

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