Byng, John, admiral, fourth son of the preceding; having failed to compel the French to raise the blockade of Minorca, was recalled, in deference to popular clamour, and being tried and condemned as guilty of treason, was shot at Portsmouth, a fate it is now believed he did not deserve, and which he bore like a man and a Christian (1704‒1757).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Byng, George, Viscount Torrington * Byrom, John