These 5 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as By Subject, Byng, Byng.
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SIR JULIAN (Baron Byng of Vimy), appointed Governor-General of Canada, June 3, 1921.
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GEORGE, VISCOUNT TOR- RINGTON, an English admiral, born at Wrotham, Kent, in 1663, and entered the navy at the age of 15. In 1688 he recommended himself to William of Orange, and for his gallant conduct at the sea-fight of Malaga was knighted by Queen Anne. In 1718 he commanded the English fleet sent to Sicily for the protection otection of the neutrality of Italy, and on July 31st utterly destroyed the Spanish fleet off Messina. In 1721 he was created Viscount Torrington. He died Jan. 17, 1733.
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JOHN, a British admiral, born in 1704, entered the navy in 1727, and served under his father, Admiral George Byng. He was sent to relieve Minorca, blockaded by a French fleet, but failed, it was thought, through hesitation in engaging the enemy. The public odium of the failure was such that the ministry allowed Byng, who was condemned by a court-martial, to be shot, at Portsmouth, March 14, 1757.
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or BIRDE, WILLIAM, an English composer, born in Lincoln in 1538, studied under Tallis; became organist of Lincoln in 1563; was appointed a gentleman of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Royal in 1569. The composer of the first English madrigals (1588), he wrote much sacred music, including the wellknown canon, "Non Nobis, Domine!" as well as largely for the virginal. He died in London, July 4, 1623.
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