1885 George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington, fine letter to General Martin Dillon

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1885 George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington, fine letter to General Martin Dillon
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1885 George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington, fine long 8page letter to General Sir Martin Dillon, from Holme Pierrepont Rectory, Nottingham the home of his new Wife's Parents.
"6th August 85
Holme Pierrepont Rectory,
Nottingham
My Dear Dillon,
I was truly pleased to receive your letter of 11th July a few minutes since and to learn for certain that the pretty bangle were a gift to Lady Torrington from my best and oldest friend. She is delighted with your wedding gift and the Lucknow arms look uncommonly handsome on her arm and they are greatly admired she joins me in thanking you warmly for them. We are here on a visit to her parents but return to
Yotes Court,
Maidstone
Kent
My permanent residence in ten days time, you must come and see us there on your return and secrete yourself in the delightful climate and pretty scenery and you can make yourself quite at home with us, no stiffness or formality but a hearty welcome. I hope your command is to your liking and that you have a good staff! How I wish I could have served you in days gone bye, I used to hope that you might be able to take me in, and that I might be of service to you, I suppose Lucknow is changed out of all recollection by thus? The only object unaltered by time being the Goomtee River and the Dhobies (Washer-Men) washing on its bank!.
Yes I devote myself to making short ....... But I hope telling speeches to the Kentish voters of the past and the future, and in our County there seems to be a strong feeling in favour of a more rigorous policy already the Conservatives have done much good and if only in Nov. They are returned to Power with a strong working majority, the Empire may not only be saved from pending destruction but placed once more on the pinnacle of greatness & progressive Civilization. The Russians are post-turing a settlement in the hopes that their friends the Radicals may come in and once more give them a free hand in Nov, but after a few months of Conservative reconstruction, even (Joseph) Chamberlain & (Sir Charles) Dilke will find it difficult to play into the hands of England's enemies.
I took my wife to see (Sir) Peter Lumsden and we had a long and most interesting talk about the Afghan affairs. You know he refused the G.C.B. From Gladstone. We are all rejoicing that Robert is to be the C in C and that the Govt are putting in measures of defence in the N.W.Frontiers. I fancy Lord R.Churchill will be a difficult card in the Ministerial whist hand!
I have been so sorry to hear about Andrew from fellows it is now more than two years since he began to break up. I have not been to Ireland since you left and don't know when I may do so again, I am very busy doing up Yotes Court and don't like being away from it a week, the property has come to me in a deplorable state and with my small income I shall have a tough job putting things in order, in fact I can only do so by slow degrees as my means admit.
I shall write to you again soon, I am scribbling off today in order to catch the mail. Lady Torrington best thanks and kindness regards with love as ever.
Yours Affably
TORRINGTON"
George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington
Arms of Byng: Quarterly sable and argent in the first quarter a lion rampant of the second
George STANLEY Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington (29 April 1841 – 20 October 1889), known as George Byng until 1884, was a British Conservative politician.
Origins
He was the son of Major the Hon. Robert Barlow Palmer Byng (third son of George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington), by his wife Elizabeth Maria Gwatkin, a daughter of Major-General Edward Gwatkin, a son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin.
Career
In 1884 he succeeded his uncle George Byng, 7th Viscount Torrington (1812-1884) in the viscountcy. In 1888 his uncle's companion, Andalusia Molesworth died. She left her fortune to Byng as she was estranged from her ex-husband's family.
Byng served briefly as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from March to October 1889 in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury.
Marriages and children
He married twice:
Firstly in 1882 to Alice Arabella (d. 1883), a daughter of James Jameson.
Secondly in 1885 to Emmeline Seymour (d. June 1912), a daughter of Rev. Henry Seymour, of Holme Pierrepont Rectory, Nottingham, by whom he had children including:
George Master Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington (1886–1944).
Death & succession
He died in office in October 1889, aged 48, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son from his second marriage, George Master Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington (1886–1944).
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1885 George Byng, 8th Viscount Torrington, fine long 8page letter to General Sir Martin Dillon, from Holme Pierrepont Rectory, Nottingham the home of his new Wife's Parents. "6th August 85 Holme Pierrepont Rectory, Nottingham My Dear Dillon, I was truly pleased to receive your letter of 11th July a few minutes since and to learn for certain that the pretty bangle were a gift to Lady Torrington from my best and oldest friend. She is delighted with your wedding gift and the Lucknow arms look uncommonly handsome on her arm and they are greatly admired she joins me in thanking you warmly for them. We are here on a visit to her parents but return to Yotes Court, Maidstone Kent My permanent residence in ten days time, you must come and see us there on your return and secrete yourself in
Type
Historical
Related Interests
Holme Pierrepont Rectory, Nottingham
EAN
Does Not apply
Country
England
Estate or House name
Yotes Court
England County
Nottinghamshire
City/Town/Village/Place
Maidstone
Family Surname
Byng
Era
1881-1890
Addressed to
General Sir Martin Dillon
Document Type
Original Manuscript Letter
Year of Issue
1885
Titled Families
8th Viscount Torrington