King George III

Standard Name: George III, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: George the Third
Used Form: Prince George

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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
Textual Production Anne Damer
AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...
Textual Production Ann Yearsley
Bristol Public Library 's copy of AY 's Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, incorporates a dozen manuscript poems, including To The King : On His Majesty's arrival at Cheltenham 1788.
Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 13-46.
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Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...
Textual Production Sarah Scott
It reached a second edition within the year.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
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Its full title is The History of Mecklenburgh, from the First Settlement of the Vandals in that Country, to the Present Time; Including a Period of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Gunning
EG published The War-Office, A Novel: her dedication to the Duke of York (son of George III ) is dated 1 December 1802.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson . Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 21 (1810): 448
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Ham
In her teens EH made up romantic stories for herself on the slightest opportunity. She attached several to George III 's daughter Princess Sophia , who was suspected of having an illegitimate child. Meeting a...
Textual Production Henrietta Battier
Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend (wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Textual Production Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
The series of watercolours by EPS which her husband presented to George III are now in the British Library .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Harcourt
MH composed the earliest entry to be included nearly a hundred years later when her journal of life at Court was printed as Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.
Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society.
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Textual Production Grace Elliott
This story credits Sir David Dundas as the cause of her writing. He was a friend both to her and to her lover the duc d'Orléans , and physician both to her and to George III
Textual Production Mary Harcourt
MH composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.
Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society.
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Textual Production Mary Latter
While staying with John Rich in London (for the second time) in 1761, ML not only studied stagecraft to benefit her own writing, but was kept busy doing writing jobs he suggested. Aware of her...
Textual Production Robert Southey
RS , in his capacity as Poet Laureate, published a poetic tribute to George III (who had died in January 1820), entitled A Vision of Judgement.
Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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Timeline

1780: Sir David Hamilton was knighted by King George...

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1780

Sir David Hamilton was knighted by King George III : the first obstetrician to be so honoured.

1780: James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as...

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1780

James Harrison (hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.

27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...

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27 February 1782

The House of Commons , on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III to end the war with the United States.

19 December 1783: George III invited William Pitt the younger,...

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19 December 1783

George III invited William Pitt the younger, Tory leader, to form the government; Pitt 's previous ministry had been defeated on a vote in the House of Lords .

2 August 1786: A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson...

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2 August 1786

A working-class woman named Margaret Nicholson tried to stab George III with a knife outside St James's Palace; she had no political motive.

11 June 1788: George III, at the resort town of Cheltenham,...

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11 June 1788

George III , at the resort town of Cheltenham, publicly suffered preliminary symptoms leading up to his second attack of porphyria, which began on 17 October.

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .

19 February 1789: Parliament was informed that George III was...

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19 February 1789

Parliament was informed that George III was in a state of convalescence; the Regency Bill which had passed the Commons on the 13th never completed its passage.

23 April 1789: A solemn service of thanksgiving for the...

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23 April 1789

A solemn service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III was held in St Paul's Cathedral.

1792: Bennelong, an Australian aboriginal who had...

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1792

Bennelong , an Australian aboriginal who had been kidnapped by Arthur Phillip , Governor of Australia, visited England, where he was presented to the king .

29 October 1795: A crowd surrounded George III's coach on...

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29 October 1795

A crowd surrounded George III 's coach on its way to the state opening of parliament ; someone threw a stone.

15 May 1800: King George III narrowly escaped death when...

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15 May 1800

King George III narrowly escaped death when a bullet aimed for him lodged in the pillar of his box at Drury Lane Theatre .

5 February 1801: William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after...

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5 February 1801

William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after failing to persuade the king that Catholic Emancipation was a necessity for the political health of Ireland.

13 February 1801: George III's third attack of porphyria b...

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13 February 1801

George III 's third attack of porphyria began.

17 March 1801: Henry Addington (a Tory who in 1805 was created...

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17 March 1801

Henry Addington (a Tory who in 1805 was created first Viscount Sidmouth) formed the government after William Pitt resigned over George III 's opposition to Catholic Emancipation.

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