In 1764, John Byron (1723-1786) left England in command of a two-ship expedition to circle the globe. He returned slightly less than two years later, having set a record for the fastest circumnavigation to date, and the first commander to circle the...

1723-1786 British Explorer and Naval Admiral After the exploration of Australia and New Zealand by Dutchman Abel Tasman (c. 1603-1659), a feverish period of sea exploration began, setting the stage for a surge in European colonialism during the...

John Byron Born November 8, 1723, Nottinghamshire, England Died April 10, 1786, London, England During the eighteenth century, political and commercial rivalries among European nations—including Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and...

Vice-Admiral The Honourable John Byron RN (November 8, 1723 – April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. He was known as Foul-weather Jack because of his frequent bad luck with the weather. Byron was the second son of the 4th Baron Byron. He...

Byron Kauffman Elliott, a retired president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and former "flying judge" in Indiana, died Saturday in his Boston home. He was 97. Mr. Elliott joined John Hancock in 1934. He was a vice president and general counsel...

"From the foot of the bed, my eyes inched slowly toward the stubbly, disheveled face of Byron, my first patient on the first day of my first year as an intern. He had been in the hospital for a long time; folks in the...