Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy

British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1862

Place of Birth: Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1935

Profession: military personnel, politician, police officer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy

  • Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935) was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since Canadian Confederation. Known to friends as "Bungo", Byng was born to a noble family at Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, England and educated at Eton College, along with his brothers.
  • Upon graduation, he received a commission as a militia officer and saw service in Egypt and Sudan before enrolling 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 the First World War—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.
  • In 1921, King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, appointed him to replace the Duke of Devonshire as Canada's governor general, a post he occupied until the Viscount Willingdon suceeded him in 1926.
  • 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 his viceregal tenure, Byng returned to the UK to be appointed Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and was promoted within the peerage to become Viscount Byng of Vimy.
  • Three years after attaining the rank of field marshal, he died at his home on 6 June.

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