Father: Earl of Strafford
Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish
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JULIAN HEDWORTH GEORGE BYNG, 1ST VISCOUNT BYNG OF VIMY
Known to friends as "Bingo", he was born to a noble family in Hertsmere, England, and educated at Eton College. Upon graduation, Byng received a commission as a militia officer and thereafter saw service in Egypt and Sudan before he enrolled in the Staff College at Camberley. There, he befriended individuals who would be his contemporaries when he attained senior rank in France. Following distinguished service during World War I—specifically, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, in the Battle of Gallipoli, as commander of the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge, and as commander of the British Third Army—Byng was in 1919 himself elevated to the peerage.
Byng proved to be popular with Canadians, due to his war leadership, though his stepping directly into political affairs became the catalyst for widespread changes to the role of the Crown in all of the British Dominions.
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Byng returned to the United Kingdom and there served as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and was promoted within the peerage to become Viscount Byng of Vimy. Three years after being appointed as a field-marshal, Byng died at his home on 6 June.
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THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929
Byng of Vimy "Mops Up" On London Nightlife
LONDON. - Tommy Atkins could have told them better!
Unfortunately, London's gay night life denizens chose to regard Lord (Bingo) Byng of Vimy, upon his appointment as head of Scotland Yard, as just another bird ripe for the "plucking," so they clinked their glasses right merrily, sang a few impudent stanzas and predicted that he would soon be striped of his fine feathers. But--
Never was a diagnosis wider of the mark. For they were to learn--and rudely!--that "Bingo" Byng and his Tommies affectionately dubbed him after the Vimy show, lost few feathers--and no fights at all!
Nor was he to be delivered a hair's breadth from the plan he had mapped out for striking terror to the hearts of fashionable law breakers.
Scotland Yard's first assault upon the citadel of gaiety consisted of raids upon half a dozen gilded night life resorts where the law was flouted openly and brazenly. Proprietors of these places were speedily hauled before the bar of justice, allowed to say their say and then sent to gaol for various terms to think over their misdeeds.
Among these was Lady de Clifford, daughter of "Mother" Merrick, the queen of London's night clubs, who has just emerged from prison after a sentence for breaking the liquor license law.
But, Byng, former governor-general of Canada, and a soldier of distinction, has other plans besides enforcing the liquor laws in the capital. He has inaugurated at The Yard a revolutionary system for dealing with persons suspected of crime, eliminating the 'third degree' method as archaic and brutal. Henceforth all prisoners immediately upon arrest will have opportunity to be represented by "counsel" during their questioning.
Admirers of the new chief of Scotland Yard point proudly to his war record as evidence of his great strategic skill. His capture of Vimy Ridge focused the eyes of the world upon him and his achievement. Vimy had been deemed impregnable but Byng and his Canadians took it to the extent of six miles.
A soldier for thirty-five years, Lord Byng is described as a "large, well made man with strong jaws, strong ears, a strong walk and devastatingly direct blue eyes."
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Byng, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA - "A scattered community on the Santa Fe Railroad that was named - in 1917, when it acquired a post office - for Sir Julian Byng of the British Army. The town lost its post office in 1957, but it has definitely not lost its consolidated school and the ability of its basketball teams to claim winter-time newspaper headlines with their performance in state play-off tournaments."
Published in the Oklahoma Travel Handbook by Kent Ruth, OU Press, Norman, OK, 1977.
Contributed by FAG contributor #46994776.
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Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish
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JULIAN HEDWORTH GEORGE BYNG, 1ST VISCOUNT BYNG OF VIMY
Known to friends as "Bingo", he was born to a noble family in Hertsmere, England, and educated at Eton College. Upon graduation, Byng received a commission as a militia officer and thereafter saw service in Egypt and Sudan before he enrolled in the Staff College at Camberley. There, he befriended individuals who would be his contemporaries when he attained senior rank in France. Following distinguished service during World War I—specifically, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, in the Battle of Gallipoli, as commander of the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge, and as commander of the British Third Army—Byng was in 1919 himself elevated to the peerage.
Byng proved to be popular with Canadians, due to his war leadership, though his stepping directly into political affairs became the catalyst for widespread changes to the role of the Crown in all of the British Dominions.
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Byng returned to the United Kingdom and there served as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and was promoted within the peerage to become Viscount Byng of Vimy. Three years after being appointed as a field-marshal, Byng died at his home on 6 June.
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THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929
Byng of Vimy "Mops Up" On London Nightlife
LONDON. - Tommy Atkins could have told them better!
Unfortunately, London's gay night life denizens chose to regard Lord (Bingo) Byng of Vimy, upon his appointment as head of Scotland Yard, as just another bird ripe for the "plucking," so they clinked their glasses right merrily, sang a few impudent stanzas and predicted that he would soon be striped of his fine feathers. But--
Never was a diagnosis wider of the mark. For they were to learn--and rudely!--that "Bingo" Byng and his Tommies affectionately dubbed him after the Vimy show, lost few feathers--and no fights at all!
Nor was he to be delivered a hair's breadth from the plan he had mapped out for striking terror to the hearts of fashionable law breakers.
Scotland Yard's first assault upon the citadel of gaiety consisted of raids upon half a dozen gilded night life resorts where the law was flouted openly and brazenly. Proprietors of these places were speedily hauled before the bar of justice, allowed to say their say and then sent to gaol for various terms to think over their misdeeds.
Among these was Lady de Clifford, daughter of "Mother" Merrick, the queen of London's night clubs, who has just emerged from prison after a sentence for breaking the liquor license law.
But, Byng, former governor-general of Canada, and a soldier of distinction, has other plans besides enforcing the liquor laws in the capital. He has inaugurated at The Yard a revolutionary system for dealing with persons suspected of crime, eliminating the 'third degree' method as archaic and brutal. Henceforth all prisoners immediately upon arrest will have opportunity to be represented by "counsel" during their questioning.
Admirers of the new chief of Scotland Yard point proudly to his war record as evidence of his great strategic skill. His capture of Vimy Ridge focused the eyes of the world upon him and his achievement. Vimy had been deemed impregnable but Byng and his Canadians took it to the extent of six miles.
A soldier for thirty-five years, Lord Byng is described as a "large, well made man with strong jaws, strong ears, a strong walk and devastatingly direct blue eyes."
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Byng, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA - "A scattered community on the Santa Fe Railroad that was named - in 1917, when it acquired a post office - for Sir Julian Byng of the British Army. The town lost its post office in 1957, but it has definitely not lost its consolidated school and the ability of its basketball teams to claim winter-time newspaper headlines with their performance in state play-off tournaments."
Published in the Oklahoma Travel Handbook by Kent Ruth, OU Press, Norman, OK, 1977.
Contributed by FAG contributor #46994776.
=======================================
Father: Earl of Strafford
Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish
--------------------------
JULIAN HEDWORTH GEORGE BYNG, 1ST VISCOUNT BYNG OF VIMY
Known to friends as "Bingo", he was born to a noble family in Hertsmere, England, and educated at Eton College. Upon graduation, Byng received a commission as a militia officer and thereafter saw service in Egypt and Sudan before he enrolled in the Staff College at Camberley. There, he befriended individuals who would be his contemporaries when he attained senior rank in France. Following distinguished service during World War I—specifically, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, in the Battle of Gallipoli, as commander of the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge, and as commander of the British Third Army—Byng was in 1919 himself elevated to the peerage.
Byng proved to be popular with Canadians, due to his war leadership, though his stepping directly into political affairs became the catalyst for widespread changes to the role of the Crown in all of the British Dominions.
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Byng returned to the United Kingdom and there served as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and was promoted within the peerage to become Viscount Byng of Vimy. Three years after being appointed as a field-marshal, Byng died at his home on 6 June.
-----------------------------------
THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929
Byng of Vimy "Mops Up" On London Nightlife
LONDON. - Tommy Atkins could have told them better!
Unfortunately, London's gay night life denizens chose to regard Lord (Bingo) Byng of Vimy, upon his appointment as head of Scotland Yard, as just another bird ripe for the "plucking," so they clinked their glasses right merrily, sang a few impudent stanzas and predicted that he would soon be striped of his fine feathers. But--
Never was a diagnosis wider of the mark. For they were to learn--and rudely!--that "Bingo" Byng and his Tommies affectionately dubbed him after the Vimy show, lost few feathers--and no fights at all!
Nor was he to be delivered a hair's breadth from the plan he had mapped out for striking terror to the hearts of fashionable law breakers.
Scotland Yard's first assault upon the citadel of gaiety consisted of raids upon half a dozen gilded night life resorts where the law was flouted openly and brazenly. Proprietors of these places were speedily hauled before the bar of justice, allowed to say their say and then sent to gaol for various terms to think over their misdeeds.
Among these was Lady de Clifford, daughter of "Mother" Merrick, the queen of London's night clubs, who has just emerged from prison after a sentence for breaking the liquor license law.
But, Byng, former governor-general of Canada, and a soldier of distinction, has other plans besides enforcing the liquor laws in the capital. He has inaugurated at The Yard a revolutionary system for dealing with persons suspected of crime, eliminating the 'third degree' method as archaic and brutal. Henceforth all prisoners immediately upon arrest will have opportunity to be represented by "counsel" during their questioning.
Admirers of the new chief of Scotland Yard point proudly to his war record as evidence of his great strategic skill. His capture of Vimy Ridge focused the eyes of the world upon him and his achievement. Vimy had been deemed impregnable but Byng and his Canadians took it to the extent of six miles.
A soldier for thirty-five years, Lord Byng is described as a "large, well made man with strong jaws, strong ears, a strong walk and devastatingly direct blue eyes."
-------------------------------------------
Byng, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA - "A scattered community on the Santa Fe Railroad that was named - in 1917, when it acquired a post office - for Sir Julian Byng of the British Army. The town lost its post office in 1957, but it has definitely not lost its consolidated school and the ability of its basketball teams to claim winter-time newspaper headlines with their performance in state play-off tournaments."
Published in the Oklahoma Travel Handbook by Kent Ruth, OU Press, Norman, OK, 1977.
Contributed by FAG contributor #46994776.
=======================================
Mother: Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish
--------------------------
JULIAN HEDWORTH GEORGE BYNG, 1ST VISCOUNT BYNG OF VIMY
Known to friends as "Bingo", he was born to a noble family in Hertsmere, England, and educated at Eton College. Upon graduation, Byng received a commission as a militia officer and thereafter saw service in Egypt and Sudan before he enrolled in the Staff College at Camberley. There, he befriended individuals who would be his contemporaries when he attained senior rank in France. Following distinguished service during World War I—specifically, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, in the Battle of Gallipoli, as commander of the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge, and as commander of the British Third Army—Byng was in 1919 himself elevated to the peerage.
Byng proved to be popular with Canadians, due to his war leadership, though his stepping directly into political affairs became the catalyst for widespread changes to the role of the Crown in all of the British Dominions.
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Byng returned to the United Kingdom and there served as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and was promoted within the peerage to become Viscount Byng of Vimy. Three years after being appointed as a field-marshal, Byng died at his home on 6 June.
-----------------------------------
THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929
Byng of Vimy "Mops Up" On London Nightlife
LONDON. - Tommy Atkins could have told them better!
Unfortunately, London's gay night life denizens chose to regard Lord (Bingo) Byng of Vimy, upon his appointment as head of Scotland Yard, as just another bird ripe for the "plucking," so they clinked their glasses right merrily, sang a few impudent stanzas and predicted that he would soon be striped of his fine feathers. But--
Never was a diagnosis wider of the mark. For they were to learn--and rudely!--that "Bingo" Byng and his Tommies affectionately dubbed him after the Vimy show, lost few feathers--and no fights at all!
Nor was he to be delivered a hair's breadth from the plan he had mapped out for striking terror to the hearts of fashionable law breakers.
Scotland Yard's first assault upon the citadel of gaiety consisted of raids upon half a dozen gilded night life resorts where the law was flouted openly and brazenly. Proprietors of these places were speedily hauled before the bar of justice, allowed to say their say and then sent to gaol for various terms to think over their misdeeds.
Among these was Lady de Clifford, daughter of "Mother" Merrick, the queen of London's night clubs, who has just emerged from prison after a sentence for breaking the liquor license law.
But, Byng, former governor-general of Canada, and a soldier of distinction, has other plans besides enforcing the liquor laws in the capital. He has inaugurated at The Yard a revolutionary system for dealing with persons suspected of crime, eliminating the 'third degree' method as archaic and brutal. Henceforth all prisoners immediately upon arrest will have opportunity to be represented by "counsel" during their questioning.
Admirers of the new chief of Scotland Yard point proudly to his war record as evidence of his great strategic skill. His capture of Vimy Ridge focused the eyes of the world upon him and his achievement. Vimy had been deemed impregnable but Byng and his Canadians took it to the extent of six miles.
A soldier for thirty-five years, Lord Byng is described as a "large, well made man with strong jaws, strong ears, a strong walk and devastatingly direct blue eyes."
-------------------------------------------
Byng, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA - "A scattered community on the Santa Fe Railroad that was named - in 1917, when it acquired a post office - for Sir Julian Byng of the British Army. The town lost its post office in 1957, but it has definitely not lost its consolidated school and the ability of its basketball teams to claim winter-time newspaper headlines with their performance in state play-off tournaments."
Published in the Oklahoma Travel Handbook by Kent Ruth, OU Press, Norman, OK, 1977.
Contributed by FAG contributor #46994776.
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