JOHN BYRON IS PART OF BRITISH naval folklore. The son of nobility and Lord Byron’s grandfather, he served in the Royal Navy as an officer, captain and vice-admiral. He was nicknamed “Foul-Weather Jack” due to his uncanny ability to confront terrible weather conditions on the high seas, and was immortalised in a 1759 portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Byron had another unusual claim to fame. He was a midshipman aboard the , a square-rigged sixth-rate vessel that.
