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Commodore Byron, said to be as notorious for foul weather as Queen Victoria is for fine. (1723–1786.)
Admiral Sir John Norris, who died 1746.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.