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Brewer's: Foul-weather Jack
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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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