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    George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada...
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    Marie Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy (née Moreton; 11 January 1870 – 20 June 1949), also known as Lady Byng, was the wife of Lord Byng, the 12th Governor...
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    conditional support of the many Farmer/Progressive MPs. The government fell the following year. Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy offered the Conservatives...
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    as Baron Byng of Vimy, of Thorpe-le-Soken in the County of Essex, on 7 October 1919. The next month, he retired from the military. Four members of the...
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    King approached the governor-general of Canada, Baron Byng of Vimy, to seek dissolution of the Parliament. Byng refused on the basis that the Conservatives...
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    member of the Byng family was the soldier Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy. He was the youngest son of the second Earl of Strafford from...
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    Peerage of Great Britain. The Peerage was created in 1721 for the statesman Sir George Byng, 1st Baronet, along with the subsidiary title Baron Byng, of Southill...
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  • Montreal, Quebec, opened by Governor General of Canada Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy in 1921. The school was attended largely by working-class Jewish...
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  • Victory title (category Military awards and decorations of ancient Rome)
    Field Marshal Sir Julian Byng, who played an important role in the Battle of Vimy Ridge (1917), was created Baron Byng of Vimy in 1919 and was later promoted...
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    Florence Lucy Byng (6 Nov 1860 – 1945), who married Hon. John Richard Boscawen. Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862–1935). Lord...
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    Edgar Nelson Rhodes (category Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia)
    served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1925 to 1930. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1908 as a member of the Conservative Party...
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    dandy Guy Burgess, diplomat and spy Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, WWI commander and Governor-General of Canada Alan Clark, MP and author John Collier...
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  • Baltimore. John Byng's elder brother, Robert Byng, was the great-great-grandfather of The Viscount Byng of Vimy, who served as Governor General of Canada from...
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  • Peerage of England List of Lordships of Parliament List of Baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain List of Baronies in the Peerage of Ireland List of Life...
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    Rodolphe Lemieux (category Speakers of the House of Commons of Canada)
    Speaker of the House of Commons. Lemieux presided over the House during several minority governments. He was Speaker during the King-Byng Affair of 1926...
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  • Ireland. A relatively late introduction, holders of the title take precedence after earls and before barons. The term "viscount" (vice-comes) was originally...
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    of Bombay and then the governorship of Madras, before he was in 1926 appointed as the Governor-General of Canada to replace the Viscount Byng of Vimy...
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  • 9th Duke of Devonshire". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved September 16, 2020. Harris, Carolyn. "Viscount Byng of Vimy". The Canadian...
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    St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge (category Church of England church buildings in the City of Westminster)
    of Winston Churchill) 30 April 1902: Julian Byng (later 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy) and Evelyn Moreton 25 July 1905: George Montagu (later 9th Earl of...
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