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George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington

George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington, was a British colonial administrator and courtier.

Family
Torrington was the son of Vice-Admiral George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington (1768–1831). He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1831 at the age of eighteen. On 19 March 1833 he married Mary Anne, only daughter of Sir John Astley, 1st Baronet. Their only daughter, Frances Elizabeth, died on 2 September 1853. Lady Torrington died on 26 January 1885. ==Career==
Career
published in Vanity Fair in 1876. In 1847 he was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he held until 1850. 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. ==Death and burial==
Death and burial
He died on 27 April 1884, ==Succession==
Succession
He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his nephew George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington. ==Arms==
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