Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington

The Right Honourable

The Viscount Torrington

PC
Portrait of Byng by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Born25 May 1699
Wrotham, Kent
Died23 January 1747(1747-01-23) (aged 47)
Southill, Bedfordshire
AllegianceGreat Britain
BranchBritish Army
RankCaptain
UnitRoyal Horse Guards
RelationsJohn Byng (brother)
John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (great-nephew)

Captain Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington, PC (25 May 1699 – 23 January 1747) was a British Army officer, politician and courtier who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1723 to 1733 when he succeeded to the peerage as Viscount Torrington. His career included service as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard during the reign of King George II.

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