George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington

The Viscount Torrington
The Right Honourable; The Viscount Torrington
	"A man of the world". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1876.
9th Governor of British Ceylon
	In office; 29 May 1847 – 8 October 1850
Monarch	Queen Victoria
Preceded by	James Emerson Tennent; (Acting governor)
Succeeded by	Charles Justin MacCarthy; (Acting governor)
Personal details
Born	9 September 1812
Died	27 April 1884 (aged 71)

George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (9 September 1812 – 27 April 1884), was a British colonial administrator and courtier.

Origins

Torrington was the son of Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768-1831).

Career

He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1831 at the age of eighteen. In 1847 he was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he held until 1850. There he is known for his harsh suppression of the 1848 civil uprising.[1] He later served as a Permanent Lord-in-waiting to Albert, Prince Consort from 1853 to 1859 and to Queen Victoria from 1859 to 1884.

He was the companion of Andalusia Molesworth after she became a widow. When she died she left her fortune to Byng's nephew and heir as she was estranged from her ex-husband's family.[2]

Death and burial

He died in April 1884, aged 71 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Lawrence's Church, Mereworth, Kent.[3]

Succession

He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his nephew George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington.

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References

Katherine Prior, ‘Anderson, Sir George William (1791–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
"Molesworth [née Carstairs; other married name West], Andalusia Grant, Lady Molesworth (c. 1809–1888), society hostess | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47908
"Arrangements for this day". The Morning Post (34901). 2 May 1884. p. 5.

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
www.thepeerage.com

Government offices
Preceded by James Emerson Tennent acting governor	Governor of Ceylon 1847–1850	Succeeded by Charles Justin MacCarthy acting governor
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by George Byng	Viscount Torrington 1831–1884	Succeeded by George Stanley Byng

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[1] Katherine Prior, ‘Anderson, Sir George William (1791–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[2] "Molesworth [née Carstairs; other married name West], Andalusia Grant, Lady Molesworth (c. 1809–1888), society hostess | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47908

[TMP020584-3] "Arrangements for this day". The Morning Post (34901). 2 May 1884. p. 5.

←Governors of British Ceylon→
Military Governors	Agnew Stuart Doyle Bonnevaux de Meuron Andrews*
Governors	North Maitland Wilson Brownrigg Barnes Paget Campbell Barnes Wilson Wilmot-Horton Stewart-Mackenzie Campbell Emerson Tennent Torrington MacCarthy Anderson MacCarthy Ward Lockyer Wilkinson MacCarthy O'Brien Robinson Robinson Irving Gregory Longden Douglas Hamilton-Gordon Havelock Walker Ridgeway im Thurn Blake Clifford McCallum Stubbs Chalmers Stubbs Anderson Stubbs Manning Clementi Alexander Clifford Fletcher Stanley Bourdillon Thomson Tyrrell Stubbs Wedderburn Caldecott Moore**
Acting, Resident and Superintendent, became Governor-General of Ceylon*