King George III

The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM 's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however...

As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III felt...

On of one of George III 's holidays at Weymouth, he visited EH 's uncle's farm. A sheaf of straw that the King handled as it came from the Thrashing [sic] Machine, was hoisted...

Back in England in her second widowhood, MD was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland . The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD

MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ). The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...

Scott had been appointed sub-preceptor in November 1750 to Prince George , who next year became Prince of Wales. After their marriage, SS and her husband moved into a house in Leicester Fields, London...

IHR 's father, Charles Walker , was the local squire and a Justice of the Peace. His father was a former Accountant General to George III .

QV 's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent , was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III and Queen Charlotte , but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for...

JB 's brother, Matthew , who was one year her elder, had some effect on the course of her life. When he inherited a London house from an uncle (in Windmill Street), he invited...

IK 's father, William Fordyce , was the son of a successful merchant later convicted of kidnapping. The son became a physician and served as an army surgeon (with the rank of captain) and later...

Her father, John Fanshawe, had a position in the royal household of George III . He died in 1816.

ECK 's father, Sir Joseph Knight , was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount...

GC 's uncle William Morton Pitt was a Member of Parliament representing Dorset for nearly fifty years. He worked fervently on behalf of the poor, and lobbied constantly for improved prison conditions. He also regularly...

Again Johnson supplied her with a dedication (to the future George III ; a sheet of George's notes on the plays is bound into his presentation copy, now in the British Library ). The work...

The Dublin edition has sixteen pages of close type. In a prefatory Advertisement, MBCL says she hopes to influence the something in agitation with regard to Ireland that she believes to be on...