Admiral John Byron [Foulweather Jack]

(1723-1786)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Byron, John, 1723-1786 NRA: Byron, John (1723-1786) Vice Admiral DNB: Byron, John (1723-1786), naval officer LBT ID: JoByron1786 VIAF ID: 39509691 LOC ID: n85005532	B/BAP: 1723-11-08 DIED: 1786-04-10
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In 1741 Byron was shipwrecked while serving as a midshipman in the Pacific under Commodore Anson, an account of which he published as The Narrative of the Hon. John Byron (1768).
REFERENCES TO Admiral John Byron [Foulweather Jack]: Walter Scott to Robert Scott of Rosebank, [30] September 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 9 August 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 2.—Lord Byron” in The Examiner (29 July 1821) 472-74 Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VIII Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On Americans Found 1: ¶ 4 Byron's Werner Found 1: ¶ n1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XXVI Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ 9 Life of Byron: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 9 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 1: ¶ n1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 6 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 1 (March 1830) 129-43 Found 1: ¶ 6 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 3: ¶ 23 ¶ 86 ¶ 87 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 17 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1790-92 Chapter IX 1810 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 53 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Appendix Found 2: ¶ 22 ¶ 24