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Julian H.G. Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy

Field Marshal The Right Honourable
The Viscount Byng of Vimy
GCB GCMG MVO
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12th Governor General of Canada
In office
2 August 1921 – 5 August 1926
Monarch George V
Prime Minister Canadian
  • Arthur Meighen
  • W. L. M. King
British
  • David Lloyd George
  • Andrew Bonar Law
  • Stanley Baldwin
  • Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by The Duke of Devonshire
Succeeded by The Viscount Willingdon
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Personal details
Born Julian Hedworth George Byng
(1862-09-11)11 September 1862
Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, England
Died 6 June 1935(1935-06-06) (aged 72)
Thorpe Hall, Essex, England
Spouse(s) Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy
Profession Officer
Signature
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1879–1919
Rank Field Marshal
Commands held Third Army
Canadian Corps
XVII Corps
IX Corps
Egypt Command
1st Cavalry Brigade
2nd Cavalry Brigade
10th Royal Hussars
South African Light Horse
Battles/wars Mahdist War
  • Battles of El Teb
  • Battle of Tamai
Second Boer War
First World War
  • First Battle of Ypres
  • Gallipoli Campaign
  • Battle of Vimy Ridge
  • Battle of Cambrai
  • Hundred Days Offensive
Awards Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Member of the Royal Victorian Order
Mentioned in Despatches (8)
Viceregal styles of
the Viscount Byng of Vimy
(1921–1926)
Royal Shield of arms of Canada (1921-1957).svg
Reference style His Excellency the Right Honourable
Son Excellence le très honourable
Spoken style Your Excellency
Votre Excellence
Alternative style Sir
Monsieur

Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (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", he was born to a noble family at Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, England, and educated at Eton College, along with his brothers. 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 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 he was appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Lloyd George, to replace the Duke of Devonshire as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Viscount Willingdon in 1926. Byng proved to be popular with Canadians, due to his war leadership, though stepping directly into political affairs became the catalyst for widespread changes to the role of the Crown in all of the British Dominions.


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