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Byng (JOHN a British admiral born)

JOHN, a British admiral, born in 1704, entered the navy in 1727, and served under his father, Admiral George it was thought, through hesitation in enblockaded by a French fleet, but failed, the failure was such that the ministry allowed Byng, who was condemned by a court-martial, to be shot, at Portsmouth, March 14, 1757. GEORGE, a British soldier; born in 1862.

GEORGE, a British soldier; born in 1862.

He chose a military career and joined through the various grades until he bethrough the various grades until he became colonel in 1901. He served with distinction in the Soudan Expedition and GENERAL SIR JULIAN BYNG the Boer War. It was in the World War, however, that he gained fame as an army commander on the western front, especially at Cambrai, where he attack, and later as leader of the vanguard in driving the enemy from France in the summer and fall of 1918.

BYRON English composer, born in Lincoln in BYRD, or BIRDE, WILLIAM, an 1538, studied under Tallis; became or- Royal in 1569. The composer of the first a gentleman of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel English madrigals (1588), he wrote a gentleman of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel much sacred music, including the wellknown canon, "Non Nobis, Domine!" as died in London, July 4, 1623. well as largely for the virginal.

He LORD, one of the greatest English