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  Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (7 November 1745 - 18 September 1790) was the sixth child of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and a younger brother of George III.
HRH Prince Henry Frederick of Wales was born on 7 November 1745, at Leicester House, London to Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, and his wife The Princess of Wales.
The marriage between Anne Horton and Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, was described as a “conquest at Brighthelmstone” by Mrs.
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 Duke of Cumberland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last creation (the form being "Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale") was for Ernest Augustus (later King of Hanover), fifth son of King George III of the United Kingdom.
The title was suspended for the third Duke's pro-German activities during World War I. Under the 1917 Titles Deprivation Act, the lineal male heirs of the 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale have the right to petition the British Crown for the restoration of his peerages.
Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1771-1851), became King of Hanover in 1837.
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 Olivia Serres - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1817, in a petition to George III., she put forward a claim to be the natural daughter of Henry Frederick, duke of Cumberland, the king's brother, and in 1820, after the death of George III., claimed to be the duke's legitimate daughter.
Her story represented that her mother was the issue of a secret marriage between Dr Wilmot and the princess Poniatowski, sister of Stanislaus, king of Poland, and that she had married the duke of Cumberland in 1767 at the London house of a nobleman.
In 1866 she took her case into court, producing all the documents on which her mother had relied, but the jury, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the reply for the crown, unanimously declared the signatures to be forgeries.
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 Legitimate Issue - Frederick, Prince Of Wales
The motives for the ill-feeling between Frederick and his parents may include the fact that he had been set up by his grandfather, even as a small child, as the representative of the house of Hanover, and was used to presiding over official occasions in the absence of his parents.
Frederick and his group supported the Opera of the Nobility in Lincoln’s Inn Fields as a rival to George Frideric Handels royally-sponsored opera at the King’s Theatre in Drury Lane.
Frederick was a genuine lover of music who played the cello, he enjoyed the natural sciences and the arts, and became a thorn in the side of his parents, thwarting their every ambition and making a point of opposing them in everything, according to the court gossip Lord Hervey.
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 HRH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
The Dukedom of Cumberland and Teviotdale (GB 1799) and Earldom of Armagh (Ireland 1799)
Cumberland, a title long held by the Cliffords, became associated with royalty in 1644, when it was conferred by King Charles I as a Dukedom, on his nephew, Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, who died unmarried in 1682, when all his honors became extinct.
HRH Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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 Nwowatcher is the leading resource for topics of political conspiracy, mythology, symbolism, activism, and the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On the death of Otho (1218), Frederick became emperor, and was crowned in Rome by Honorius III (1220).
From the death of Frederick II (1250) to the election of Henry VII (1308), the imperial throne was regarded by the Italians as vacant.
Henry himself was a chivalrous and high minded idealist, who hated the very names of Guelph and Ghibelline; his expedition to Italy (1310-1313) roused much temporary enthusiasm (reflected in the poetry of Dante and Cino da Pistoia), but he was successfully resisted by King Robert of Naples and the Florentines.
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 The Royal Marriages Act, 1772
The king desired this piece of legislation to be passed after two of his brothers, William Duke of Gloucester and Henry Duke of Cumberland, married commoners.
I believe that a confusion in names has led to the widely-held belief that Nancy Parsons, the Duke of Grafton's mistress, was the same Anne Horton who went on the marry the King's brother, Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland.
After the Duke of Grafton married in 1769, the 40-year old Nancy turned to the young 24-year old Duke of Dorset, with whom she lived until the summer of 1776.
www.historyhome.co.uk /c-eight/constitu/royalmar.htm   (585 words)

  
 marks of cadency in the British royal family
Henry III and his brother the earl of Cornwall bore altogether different arms (the latter adopting the arms of the county of Poitou which he claimed and briefly held in the 1240s).
The duke of Kendal was given a label of 3 points, but it was becoming clear by then that Charles II would have no legitimate heirs, and in fact the duke of York's arms were sometimes shown with a label of three points argent.
Alfred, duke of Edinburgh, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1844-1900)
www.heraldica.org /topics/britain/cadency.htm   (1860 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - May 1925
The Duke was a notable soldier and commanded the English troops in the Low Countries at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
On the death of the Duke of Cumberland in 1790 he was elected Grand Master and was installed as such in 1792.
One can see in Freemasons' Hall, London, the statue of the Duke placed there by the Craft in 1846 as a token of their esteem and in the Library can be seen the magnificent piece of plate presented to the Duke in 1838 on completing his twenty-fifth year of office as Grand Master.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1925_may.htm   (11273 words)

  
 Royal Houses of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, Earl of Dublin, K.G., Admiral of the White, born 27 October 1745, married 2 October 1771, Hon.
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, Marquess of Berkhampstead, Earl of Kennington, Viscount Trematon and Baron Alderney, K.G., Field Marshal, and C-in-C cmd'd.
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Earl of Ulster, K.G., Prince and Bishop of Osnaburg (1764-1803), Field Marshal and C-in-C, born 16 August 1763, married 29 September 1791, Princess Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherine (died 6 Aug.1820), daughter of Frederick William II, King of Prussia, and died without issue 5 January 1827.
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 Royal Houses of Scotland
Alexander, Duke of Albany, married firstly, Lady Katherine Sinclair, daughter of William, Earl of Orkney and Caithness, which married was diss.
The Duke was killed in Paris by the splinter of a lance at a tournament, 1485.
George FITZROY, Duke of Northumberland, born 1665, married firstly 1685/6 Catherine (died without issue 1714), widow of Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, and daughter of Robert Wheatley, of Bracknell, Berks., married secondly 1714/5 Mary (died 1738), daughter of Henry Dutton, and died without issuel 1716.
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 The Arcane Schools - Part 7 - by John Yarker
On the 16th May, 1766, William Henry Duke of Gloucester received the three degrees in a Lodge held at the Horn Tavern; on the 9th February, 1767, Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland at the Thatched House Tavern.
On the death of the Duke of Cumberland, G.M., the Prince of Wales was elected to the vacant throne, and was Installed Grand Master 2nd May, 1792, when he appointed Lord Rawdon as Acting Grand Master, and Sir Peter Parker as Deputy.
The Duke of Sussex, G.M., had been for some time in bad health, and the loss of his eyesight was feared, but on the 27th Jany., 1837, he was so far recovered as to make his appearance in Grand Lodge, when he received a most cordial and hearty welcome.
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 Wikinfo | Duke of Edinburgh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Duke of Edinburgh is a British dukedom.
That means that when the present Duke dies, the dukedom will be inherited by his eldest son, The Prince of Wales.
HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805)
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 Serres, Olive autograph letter signed to Duke of Northumberland available from David Bristow Autographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The “annexed paper” to which she refers is an appeal printed on the conjugate leaf of the letter under the heading, “The Princess of Cumberland in Captivity, contrary to the Rights and Privileges of her Birth, at Mr.
In 1816 she made her first claim to be the daughter of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, brother of George III, and assumed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland.
In 1821, arrested for debt, she produced what purported to be an early will of George III leaving £15,000 to “Olive, the daughter of our brother Cumberland”; Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, declared her claim to be baseless.
www.bristowandgarland.co.uk /serres.htm   (337 words)

  
 decendants of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Frederick II of_Saxe-Coburg ----- [10863] and Gotha duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Magdelina Augusta ________ ------ [10875] wife of Frederick II, duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Adolphus Frederick of_England --- [10788] duke of Cambridge b.24_Feb_1774, Buckingham House d.8_Jul_1850, Cambridge House, Piccadilly A.
Henry Frederick of_England ------ [10799] duke of Cumberland b.27_Oct_1745, Leicester House, London d.18_Sep_1790, London Anne Luttrell [10879] ----------- b.24_Jan_1743, London m.2_Oct_1771, London wife of Henry Frederick, duke of Cumberland wife of Christopher Horton d.28_Dec_1808, Trieste
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 Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain
Of his sons, the duke of York married in 1791 but had no issue, the prince of Wales married in 1795 and had only one daughter, princess Charlotte; the duke of Cumberland married in 1815 and his only son Georg was born in Berlin in May 1819, seven months before the death of George III.
In the act, the two surviving children of the duke of Gloucester are called "his Highness Prince William Frederick, the son of his said Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester" and his sister "her Highness Princess Sophia Matilda, the daughter of his said Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester".
Alfred, duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900), duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1893
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 Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In a pose characteristic of his portraiture, she sits against a landscape setting, blurring the distinctions between a real summer sky and a backdrop in the artist's studio.
Anne Horton herself blurred the distinction between commoners and nobility when she married the English king's brother, Henry Frederick Hanover, duke of Cumberland, in 1771.
She upset the entire royal circle, and King George III was so disturbed that he instigated the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, requiring most of his descendants under the age of twenty-five to obtain the king's and Parliament's consent to wed.
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 Thoroughbred Foundation Sires - J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bred by Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, and retained in his stud through the mid-1780s, appears to have been sold to Mr.
Not identified in GSB, mistaken in that book and the ASB for the son of another Partner mare, Roger of the Vale (1741, by Roundhead), corrected as far as is known in the mid-20th century.
Owned by Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, for whom he won the Cup at Newmarket October in 1771, and the Doncaster Cup in 1774 and 1775.
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 I4318: Míl Espáne (MILED , Milesius), King of Spain (____ - ____)
Father: Raynulfe_II Duke of Aquitaine and Count of POIT
_Raynulfe_I Duke of AQUITAINE _+ _Raynulfe_II Duke of Aquitaine and Count of POIT _
Henry_I Count of Eu and Lord of HASTINGS
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There is no mention of the deputation of Henry Price in the Grand Lodge of England Minutes and it is not mentioned in the list of those sent beyond the seas in Anderson's Constitutions of 1738.
The deputation of Daniel Coxe by the Duke of Norfolk is, however, in the minutes of June 5, 1730 as Provincial Grand Master.
In 1734 Benjamin Franklin was elected and he wrote to Henry Price and requested clarification of Price's Provincial Grand Master status as related to area.
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 Kongerækker for England og Danmark
Lionel of Antwerp; Duke of Clarence by marriage Earl of Ulster and Connaught; 1336-1368;
Henry Duke of Gloucester; * 1639; † 1660;
James I's d Elizabeth m Frederick of Rhine and Bohemia; their d Sophia (of 11 children) m Ernest Augustus Elector of Hanover † 1698; their eldest of 7 was George.
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 Princess Augusta
Edward Augustus, Prince of GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland, Duke of York and Albany (d.
Frederick William, Prince of GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland (d.1765) [15 yrs]
with Duke Karl of Braunschweig for her to be betrothed to the duke’s son,
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 thePeerage.com - Place Index 78
Sheffield, John, 1st Duke of the County of Buckingham and of Normanby  b.
Windsor, Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of the United Kingdom  b.
Bridgeman, George Augustus Frederick Henry, 2nd Earl of Bradford  b.
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 Last Names A-I
Bernadotte, Vilhelm of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland (b.
Hessen-Darmstadt, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hessen and Rhein (b.
Hessen-Darmstadt, Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Hessen and Rhein (b.
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 [No title]
In 1724, 1725, 1726,the Grand Masters were Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond; James Hamilton Lord {498} Paisley; and William O'Brian Earl of Inchiquin.
Motto: Aude vide tace (Hear, see, and be silent.) A revision of the Lectures of the three degrees of the Craft was committed to the Rev. Bro.
And these Charges have been seen and perused by our late Sovereign Lord King Henry the Sixth, and the Lords of the honourable Council, and they have allowed them well, and said they were right good and reasonable to be holden.
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 The Scottish Royal Lineage - the House of Guelph
4b Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, Earl of Dublin, K.G., Admiral of the White,
6a Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Arklow, K.G.,
b at Buckingham Palace, 9 Nov. 1841, Duke of Cornwall, etc., at birth, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, 8 Dec. 1841, Earl of Dublin, 17 Jan.
www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/scotland/sitepages/page31h.asp   (2599 words)

  
 Law Books April 2006 Antiquarian and Scholarly Law Books
The Trial of His R[oyal] H[ighness] the D[uke] of C[umberland] for Criminal Conversation with Lady Harriet G[rosveno]r.
* Henry Frederick, the brother of King George III, was notorious for his—to use the language of the day—”excesses” and “irregular” life.
With a Short Sketch of the Evidence and Copies of the Various Letters Held at the Bar of the House of Commons, During Adjourned Examinations.
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 Thomas Gainsborough .- Olga's Gallery
To look at auction records, find Gainsborough's works in upcoming auctions, check price levels and indexes for his works, read his biography and view his signature, access the Artprice database.
Portrait of Prince Edward, Later Duke of Kent.
Portrait of Henry, Duke of Cumberland, with the Duchess of Cumberland and Lady Elizabeth Luttrell.
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