Talk:John Byron

Two possible changes to the parent article?

additional information

The novelist Patrick O'Brian wrote a novel, The Unknown Shore which featured a teenage John Byron as one of the two heroes. The article currently says that Bryon accompanied George Anson on his circumnavigation of the World. However Byron was aboard the HMS Wager, which was wrecked on coast of the south of Chile.

a correction as to Byron's rank in 1761

The John Byron article, and the article on the History of the Falkland Islands says that Byron's rank was Commander when he captured the Falkland Islands in 1761. This is extremely unlikely. The parent article says that he commanded a squadron in 1760. So he would almost certainly have been a Post Captain, and, by courtesy, a Commodore.