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Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (15 January 1776 – 30 November 1834) was a great-grandson of King George II of Great Britain and the nephew and son-in-law of King George III. He was the grandson of both Frederick, Prince of Wales (George II's eldest son), and Edward Walpole. Prince William married Princess Mary, the fourth daughter of George III.

Prince William Frederick
Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
image
The Duke of Gloucester, c. 1810s
BornPrince William Frederick of Gloucester
(1776-01-15)15 January 1776
Teodoli Palace, Rome, Papal States
Died30 November 1834(1834-11-30) (aged 58)
Bagshot Park, Surrey, England
Burial11 December 1834
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Spouse
Princess Mary of the United Kingdom
​
​
(m. 1816)​
HouseHanover
FatherPrince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
MotherMaria Walpole

Early life

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The Duke of Gloucester in an engraving based on a portrait painted by Sir William Beechey, published 1826

Prince William Frederick was born on 15 January 1776 at Palazzo Teodoli in via del Corso, Rome. His father was Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the third son of Frederick, Prince of Wales. His mother, Maria, was the illegitimate daughter of Edward Walpole and granddaughter of Robert Walpole. As a great-grandson of George II he held the title of Prince of Great Britain with the style His Highness, not His Royal Highness, at birth. The young prince was baptized at Teodoli Palace, on 12 February 1776 by a Rev Salter. His godparents were his father's cousin and cousin-in-law, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duchess Charlotte; and the Duke of Gloucester's second cousin, Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.[citation needed]

During his stay in Stockholm in 1802–1803, William's interest and rumoured affair with Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull attracted a lot of attention, and he reportedly had plans to marry her. Queen Charlotte of Sweden recalled that William said of Koskull: "If she was your daughter, I would marry her!"

William was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1787, and granted his MA in 1790. He set up his London home at 31 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair. On 25 August 1805, Prince William's father died, and he inherited the titles Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh and Earl of Connaught.

From 1811 until his death, William was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was offered the throne of Sweden in 1812 by some members of the Swedish nobility, but the British government would not allow it;[citation needed] the French marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was eventually selected to become King Charles XIV John.

Military career

On the outbreak of war with France in 1793, Prince William was commissioned as a captain in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Army, backdated to March 1789. He was promoted to colonel on 24 February 1794, and served in the Flanders campaign from March to May that year. On 26 February 1795 he was promoted to major-general. From September to October 1799 he commanded a brigade of Foot Guards in the Helder Expedition, for which he was mentioned in despatches. On 13 November 1799 he was promoted lieutenant-general, and held various home commands before being promoted to general on 25 April 1808. On 26 May 1816 he was promoted field marshal.

He was colonel of the 115th Regiment of Foot (Prince William's) from 1794, then colonel of the 6th Regiment of Foot from 1795 and finally colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards from 1806 until his death.

Marriage

According to letters held in the archive of the artist and barrister's clerk Anthony Crosby, the Duke married Ann Maguire (1786-1850), in a clandestine ceremony on 6 July 1811 conducted at the house of his friend, Ann Hamilton, at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London. The ceremony was reportedly conducted by Thomas Pettingal, Rector of Easthampstead, Berkshire, with those present including Hamilton, Lady Jane Lanesborough (the widow of Brinsley Butler, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough) and her husband John King. Maguire claims the Duke maintained a relationship with her until his death in 1834. No marriage certificate is known, and any such marriage would be invalid under the Royal Marriages Act. After the Duke's death an annuity of £200 per year was purchased for Maguire from the Duke's estate.

On 22 July 1816, Prince William married his first cousin Princess Mary, the fourth daughter of King George III. The marriage took place at St. James's Palace, London. On that day, the Prince Regent granted the Duke the style of His Royal Highness by Order in Council.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester lived at Bagshot Park in Surrey. They had no children together; they had married when both were 40. The Duke had been encouraged to stay single, so that there might be a suitable groom for Princess Charlotte of Wales, who was expected to succeed to the throne, if no foreign match proved suitable; she had married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg ten weeks earlier.

Later life

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Prince William was a regular guest at Earlham Hall, seat of the Gurney family who, like William, were abolitionists and Whigs

William was active in many walks of life, and on 27 April 1822 he chaired the first Annual General Meeting of London's new United University Club. In politics, "the Duke generally voted with the Whigs" but only entered the House of Lords rarely and voted on few of the great issues of his time. He did advocate the abolition of slavery, and he supported Caroline of Brunswick and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, against King George IV. In a speech at the House of Lords on 5 February 1807, he stated that

My lords, I cannot find language sufficiently strong to express my abhorrence and detestation of this abominable traffic in human blood; and I think the present question is the most momentous that ever came before your lordships: for what question can be more momentous, or come more closely home to our bosoms and our feelings of humanity, than that which concerns the welfare, the happiness, nay even the lives of myriads of our fellow creatures? Adverting to the resolution of last parliament, now on your lordships' table, declaring that the Slave Trade is contrary to justice, humanity, and policy, can you still allow British subjects to carry on what has been thus solemnly declared to be unjust, inhuman, and impolitic?

In the 1790s, William and his friends John Opie, who had painted the Duke's portrait, and his wife Amelia Opie were regular guests at Earlham Hall, the seat of the Gurney family who, like the Duke and the Opies, were Whigs and abolitionists. Upon John Opie's death, the Duke wrote a letter of sympathy to Amelia saying he was glad Royal etiquette allowed him to follow the Opie funeral procession in his carriage to St. Paul’s Cathedral where Opie would be buried.

The Duke of Gloucester kept more state than the King; he never permitted a gentleman to be seated in his presence (which King George did as an exceptional favour) and expected to be served coffee by the ladies of any party he attended, and that they would stand while he drank it. The general estimate of his capacity is given by his nickname, "Silly Billy"; he was also called "Slice of Gloucester" and "Cheese", a reference to Gloucester cheese.

Because of the unequal character of his parents' marriage, the Duke was excluded from the House of Hanover, being considered only a British prince. For instance, he and his sister Sophia were not listed in the genealogical listing of the electoral House of Hanover in the Königlicher Groß-Britannischer und Kurfürstlicher Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender. He was also not invited to sign the family compact of the house of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1831, which means that he was not considered an agnate of the royal (electoral) house in Germany]].

The Duke died on 30 November 1834 at Bagshot Park, and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

Connaught Place, Connaught Street and Connaught Square in the Tyburnia district north of London's Hyde Park all take their name from his subsidiary title the Earl of Connaught. The area was developed in the 1820s and still features much of its original Regency architecture.

Honours

  • KG: Knight of the Garter, 16 July 1794[citation needed]

Arms

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Arms of Prince William Frederick

William was granted use of his father's arms (being the arms of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of five points, the centre bearing a fleur-de-lys azure, the other points each bearing a cross gules), the whole differenced by a label argent (or azure).

Ancestry

Ancestors of Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
8. George II of Great Britain
4. Frederick, Prince of Wales
9. Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach
2. Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
10. Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
5. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
11. Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst
1. Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
12. Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
6. Sir Edward Walpole
13. Catherine Shorter
3. Maria Walpole
14. Hammond Clement
7. Dorothy Clement
15. Priscilla Clement

See also

  • List of British princes

References

  1. "...the insignificant palaces, Fiano, Verospi, and Teodoli..." (Augustus Hare, Walks in Rome vol. i, 1903 p. 46).
  2. Cecilia af Klercker (1927). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok VII 1800–1806 (The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte VII 1800–1806) (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. OCLC 68029346.
  3. "Gloucester, H.R.H. Prince William Frederick, Duke of (GLCR787WF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "Upper Grosvenor Street: South Side Pages 231-238 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings). Originally published by London County Council, London, 1980". British History Online. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  5. "No. 13501". The London Gazette. 9–12 February 1793. p. 119.
  6. T. A. Heathcote, The British Field Marshals 1763–1997: A Biographical Dictionary (1999), p. 302.
  7. "No. 13625". The London Gazette. 18–22 February 1794. p. 160.
  8. "No. 13755". The London Gazette. 24–28 February 1795. p. 187.
  9. "No. 15186". The London Gazette. 24 September 1799. p. 974.
  10. "No. 16142". The London Gazette. 3–7 May 1808. p. 622.
  11. "No. 17139". The London Gazette. 25 May 1816. p. 991.
  12. "No. 13650". The London Gazette. 29 April – 3 May 1794. p. 395.
  13. "No. 13828". The London Gazette. 3–7 November 1795. p. 1140.
  14. "No. 15923". The London Gazette. 27–31 May 1806. p. 662.
  15. "No. 19220". The London Gazette. 12 December 1834. p. 2243.
  16. London Metropolitan Archives Reference: Uncatalogued B23/103 Records of Anthony Crosby
  17. Anthony J. Camp - ROYAL MISTRESSES AND BASTARDS ISBN 978-0-9503308-2-2
  18. "Anthony J. Camp - ADDITIONS".
  19. Royal Styles and Titles – 1816 Royal Warrant. Heraldica.org. Retrieved on 15 July 2012.
  20. Complete Peerage, "Duke of Gloucester", citing the obituary of Princess Mary in the Annual Register of 1857.
  21. Club History Since 1821 Archived 31 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine at oxfordandcambridgeclub.co.uk (accessed 9 January 2008)
  22. Campbell, Thomas (1835). "New Monthly Magazine". 43. Henry Colburn: 135. In politics, the Duke generally voted with the Whigs... {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. A. W. Purdue, ‘William Frederick, Prince, second duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2009.
  24. "SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION BILL. (Hansard, 5 February 1807)".
  25. Farrant, A. (2015). Amelia Opie and the Martineaus (PDF). Martineau Society. Retrieved 23 July 2023. This was Prince William Frederick, the Duke of Gloucester, a staunch advocate of the abolition of slavery. Amelia had first met him in the 1790s, when he was a guest of the Gurneys of Earlham on several occasions. Louisa and Richenda Gurney wrote glowing accounts of him in their journals, describing him as sociable and agreeable. John Opie's last portrait was of the Duke; it was completed just before his death. The Duke wrote a letter of sympathy to Amelia and said he was glad Royal etiquette allowed him to follow the Opie funeral procession in his carriage to St. Paul's Cathedral....When Amelia wrote her Memoir of John Opie to accompany the publication of his lectures on painting, the subscribers included Harriet's uncles David, Peter and John and a Philip Meadows Taylor of Liverpool (possibly the son of Richard and Margaret Taylor and therefore cousin to these uncles). Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, headed the list of 206 subscribers.
  26. "William Frederick (1776–1834), 2nd Duke of Gloucester [by] John Opie (1761–1807)". ArtUK. ® ArtUK. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  27. Keen, P. (2020). The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821. Taylor and Francis. p. 408. ISBN 9781000742671. Retrieved 23 July 2023. Richard Gurney was raised in a Quaker family as a committed Whig and was in favour of criminal law reform and parliamentary reform . He eventually became senior partner of his family's banking firm in Norwich
  28. Complete Peerage, "Duke of Gloucester"
  29. Styles of the members of the British royal family
  30. "Royal Burials in the Chapel since 1805". College of St George - Windsor Castle. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  31. Bebbington, Gillian. London Street Names. Batsford, 1972. p.96
  32. Marks of Cadency in the British Royal Family. Heraldica.org. Retrieved on 15 July 2012.

External links

  • Portraits of Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh at the National Portrait Gallery, London image
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
House of Hanover
Cadet branch of the House of Welf
Born: 15 January 1776 Died: 30 November 1834
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Ralph Abercromby
Colonel of the 6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1795–1805
Succeeded by
George Nugent
Preceded by
The Duke of Argyll
Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards
1806–1834
Succeeded by
The Duke of Gordon
Preceded by
Sir William Keppel
Governor of Portsmouth
1827–1834
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas McMahon, Bt
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Prince William Henry
Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1805–1834
Extinct

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Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh 15 January 1776 30 November 1834 was a great grandson of King George II of Great Britain and the nephew and son in law of King George III He was the grandson of both Frederick Prince of Wales George II s eldest son and Edward Walpole Prince William married Princess Mary the fourth daughter of George III Prince William FrederickDuke of Gloucester and EdinburghThe Duke of Gloucester c 1810sBornPrince William Frederick of Gloucester 1776 01 15 15 January 1776 Teodoli Palace Rome Papal StatesDied30 November 1834 1834 11 30 aged 58 Bagshot Park Surrey EnglandBurial11 December 1834 St George s Chapel Windsor CastleSpousePrincess Mary of the United Kingdom m 1816 wbr HouseHanoverFatherPrince William Henry Duke of Gloucester and EdinburghMotherMaria WalpoleEarly lifeThe Duke of Gloucester in an engraving based on a portrait painted by Sir William Beechey published 1826 Prince William Frederick was born on 15 January 1776 at Palazzo Teodoli in via del Corso Rome His father was Prince William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh the third son of Frederick Prince of Wales His mother Maria was the illegitimate daughter of Edward Walpole and granddaughter of Robert Walpole As a great grandson of George II he held the title of Prince of Great Britain with the style His Highness not His Royal Highness at birth The young prince was baptized at Teodoli Palace on 12 February 1776 by a Rev Salter His godparents were his father s cousin and cousin in law Ernest II Duke of Saxe Gotha Altenburg and Duchess Charlotte and the Duke of Gloucester s second cousin Christian Frederick Charles Alexander Margrave of Brandenburg Ansbach citation needed During his stay in Stockholm in 1802 1803 William s interest and rumoured affair with Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull attracted a lot of attention and he reportedly had plans to marry her Queen Charlotte of Sweden recalled that William said of Koskull If she was your daughter I would marry her William was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1787 and granted his MA in 1790 He set up his London home at 31 Upper Grosvenor Street Mayfair On 25 August 1805 Prince William s father died and he inherited the titles Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh and Earl of Connaught From 1811 until his death William was Chancellor of the University of Cambridge He was offered the throne of Sweden in 1812 by some members of the Swedish nobility but the British government would not allow it citation needed the French marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was eventually selected to become King Charles XIV John Military careerOn the outbreak of war with France in 1793 Prince William was commissioned as a captain in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army backdated to March 1789 He was promoted to colonel on 24 February 1794 and served in the Flanders campaign from March to May that year On 26 February 1795 he was promoted to major general From September to October 1799 he commanded a brigade of Foot Guards in the Helder Expedition for which he was mentioned in despatches On 13 November 1799 he was promoted lieutenant general and held various home commands before being promoted to general on 25 April 1808 On 26 May 1816 he was promoted field marshal He was colonel of the 115th Regiment of Foot Prince William s from 1794 then colonel of the 6th Regiment of Foot from 1795 and finally colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards from 1806 until his death MarriageAccording to letters held in the archive of the artist and barrister s clerk Anthony Crosby the Duke married Ann Maguire 1786 1850 in a clandestine ceremony on 6 July 1811 conducted at the house of his friend Ann Hamilton at 2 Grafton Street Mayfair London The ceremony was reportedly conducted by Thomas Pettingal Rector of Easthampstead Berkshire with those present including Hamilton Lady Jane Lanesborough the widow of Brinsley Butler 2nd Earl of Lanesborough and her husband John King Maguire claims the Duke maintained a relationship with her until his death in 1834 No marriage certificate is known and any such marriage would be invalid under the Royal Marriages Act After the Duke s death an annuity of 200 per year was purchased for Maguire from the Duke s estate On 22 July 1816 Prince William married his first cousin Princess Mary the fourth daughter of King George III The marriage took place at St James s Palace London On that day the Prince Regent granted the Duke the style of His Royal Highness by Order in Council The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester lived at Bagshot Park in Surrey They had no children together they had married when both were 40 The Duke had been encouraged to stay single so that there might be a suitable groom for Princess Charlotte of Wales who was expected to succeed to the throne if no foreign match proved suitable she had married Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg ten weeks earlier Later lifePrince William was a regular guest at Earlham Hall seat of the Gurney family who like William were abolitionists and Whigs William was active in many walks of life and on 27 April 1822 he chaired the first Annual General Meeting of London s new United University Club In politics the Duke generally voted with the Whigs but only entered the House of Lords rarely and voted on few of the great issues of his time He did advocate the abolition of slavery and he supported Caroline of Brunswick and Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex against King George IV In a speech at the House of Lords on 5 February 1807 he stated thatMy lords I cannot find language sufficiently strong to express my abhorrence and detestation of this abominable traffic in human blood and I think the present question is the most momentous that ever came before your lordships for what question can be more momentous or come more closely home to our bosoms and our feelings of humanity than that which concerns the welfare the happiness nay even the lives of myriads of our fellow creatures Adverting to the resolution of last parliament now on your lordships table declaring that the Slave Trade is contrary to justice humanity and policy can you still allow British subjects to carry on what has been thus solemnly declared to be unjust inhuman and impolitic In the 1790s William and his friends John Opie who had painted the Duke s portrait and his wife Amelia Opie were regular guests at Earlham Hall the seat of the Gurney family who like the Duke and the Opies were Whigs and abolitionists Upon John Opie s death the Duke wrote a letter of sympathy to Amelia saying he was glad Royal etiquette allowed him to follow the Opie funeral procession in his carriage to St Paul s Cathedral where Opie would be buried The Duke of Gloucester kept more state than the King he never permitted a gentleman to be seated in his presence which King George did as an exceptional favour and expected to be served coffee by the ladies of any party he attended and that they would stand while he drank it The general estimate of his capacity is given by his nickname Silly Billy he was also called Slice of Gloucester and Cheese a reference to Gloucester cheese Because of the unequal character of his parents marriage the Duke was excluded from the House of Hanover being considered only a British prince For instance he and his sister Sophia were not listed in the genealogical listing of the electoral House of Hanover in the Koniglicher Gross Britannischer und Kurfurstlicher Braunschweig Luneburgscher Staats Kalender He was also not invited to sign the family compact of the house of Brunswick Luneburg in 1831 which means that he was not considered an agnate of the royal electoral house in Germany The Duke died on 30 November 1834 at Bagshot Park and was buried in St George s Chapel Windsor Connaught Place Connaught Street and Connaught Square in the Tyburnia district north of London s Hyde Park all take their name from his subsidiary title the Earl of Connaught The area was developed in the 1820s and still features much of its original Regency architecture HonoursKG Knight of the Garter 16 July 1794 citation needed ArmsArms of Prince William Frederick William was granted use of his father s arms being the arms of the kingdom differenced by a label argent of five points the centre bearing a fleur de lys azure the other points each bearing a cross gules the whole differenced by a label argent or azure AncestryAncestors of Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh8 George II of Great Britain4 Frederick Prince of Wales9 Princess Caroline of Brandenburg Ansbach2 Prince William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh10 Frederick II Duke of Saxe Gotha Altenburg5 Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha11 Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt Zerbst1 Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh12 Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford6 Sir Edward Walpole13 Catherine Shorter3 Maria Walpole14 Hammond Clement7 Dorothy Clement15 Priscilla ClementSee alsoList of British princesReferences the insignificant palaces Fiano Verospi and Teodoli Augustus Hare Walks in Rome vol i 1903 p 46 Cecilia af Klercker 1927 Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok VII 1800 1806 The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte VII 1800 1806 in Swedish P A Norstedt amp Soners forlag OCLC 68029346 Gloucester H R H Prince William Frederick Duke of GLCR787WF A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge Upper Grosvenor Street South Side Pages 231 238 Survey of London Volume 40 the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The Buildings Originally published by London County Council London 1980 British History Online Retrieved 13 July 2020 No 13501 The London Gazette 9 12 February 1793 p 119 T A Heathcote The British Field Marshals 1763 1997 A Biographical Dictionary 1999 p 302 No 13625 The London Gazette 18 22 February 1794 p 160 No 13755 The London Gazette 24 28 February 1795 p 187 No 15186 The London Gazette 24 September 1799 p 974 No 16142 The London Gazette 3 7 May 1808 p 622 No 17139 The London Gazette 25 May 1816 p 991 No 13650 The London Gazette 29 April 3 May 1794 p 395 No 13828 The London Gazette 3 7 November 1795 p 1140 No 15923 The London Gazette 27 31 May 1806 p 662 No 19220 The London Gazette 12 December 1834 p 2243 London Metropolitan Archives Reference Uncatalogued B23 103 Records of Anthony Crosby Anthony J Camp ROYAL MISTRESSES AND BASTARDS ISBN 978 0 9503308 2 2 Anthony J Camp ADDITIONS Royal Styles and Titles 1816 Royal Warrant Heraldica org Retrieved on 15 July 2012 Complete Peerage Duke of Gloucester citing the obituary of Princess Mary in the Annual Register of 1857 Club History Since 1821 Archived 31 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine at oxfordandcambridgeclub co uk accessed 9 January 2008 Campbell Thomas 1835 New Monthly Magazine 43 Henry Colburn 135 In politics the Duke generally voted with the Whigs a href wiki Template Cite journal title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help A W Purdue William Frederick Prince second duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh 1776 1834 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press September 2004 online edn May 2009 SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION BILL Hansard 5 February 1807 Farrant A 2015 Amelia Opie and the Martineaus PDF Martineau Society Retrieved 23 July 2023 This was Prince William Frederick the Duke of Gloucester a staunch advocate of the abolition of slavery Amelia had first met him in the 1790s when he was a guest of the Gurneys of Earlham on several occasions Louisa and Richenda Gurney wrote glowing accounts of him in their journals describing him as sociable and agreeable John Opie s last portrait was of the Duke it was completed just before his death The Duke wrote a letter of sympathy to Amelia and said he was glad Royal etiquette allowed him to follow the Opie funeral procession in his carriage to St Paul s Cathedral When Amelia wrote her Memoir of John Opie to accompany the publication of his lectures on painting the subscribers included Harriet s uncles David Peter and John and a Philip Meadows Taylor of Liverpool possibly the son of Richard and Margaret Taylor and therefore cousin to these uncles Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester headed the list of 206 subscribers William Frederick 1776 1834 2nd Duke of Gloucester by John Opie 1761 1807 ArtUK ArtUK Retrieved 23 July 2023 Keen P 2020 The Popular Radical Press in Britain 1811 1821 Taylor and Francis p 408 ISBN 9781000742671 Retrieved 23 July 2023 Richard Gurney was raised in a Quaker family as a committed Whig and was in favour of criminal law reform and parliamentary reform He eventually became senior partner of his family s banking firm in Norwich Complete Peerage Duke of Gloucester Styles of the members of the British royal family Royal Burials in the Chapel since 1805 College of St George Windsor Castle Retrieved 5 March 2023 Bebbington Gillian London Street Names Batsford 1972 p 96 Marks of Cadency in the British Royal Family Heraldica org Retrieved on 15 July 2012 External linksPortraits of Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh at the National Portrait Gallery London Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and EdinburghHouse of HanoverCadet branch of the House of WelfBorn 15 January 1776 Died 30 November 1834 Military offices Preceded bySir Ralph Abercromby Colonel of the 6th 1st Warwickshire Regiment of Foot 1795 1805 Succeeded byGeorge Nugent Preceded byThe Duke of Argyll Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards 1806 1834 Succeeded byThe Duke of Gordon Preceded bySir William Keppel Governor of Portsmouth 1827 1834 Succeeded bySir Thomas McMahon Bt Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byPrince William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh 1805 1834 Extinct

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