King George IV

Standard Name: George IV, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: Prince Regent
Used Form: George the Fourth

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Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
GE bore a daughter, Georgina or Georgiana , whose paternity was variously ascribed to several of her lovers (including the Prince of Wales , with whom she had broken up some months before the birth)...
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X ) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans , later...
Wealth and Poverty Grace Elliott
She needed to visit London to press for payment of the annuity promised her by the Prince of Wales : three hundred and fifty pounds a year, paid quarterly, on the condition of her living...
Friends, Associates Grace Elliott
She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince , according to the account in notes to her published journal.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press.
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Her closest friends at this time, say her biographers, were Lady Worsley (whose chequered career...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fenwick
Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley , her first husband the architect Willey Reveley , and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley . (Their son was a playmate...
politics Eliza Fletcher
EF took the side of Queen Caroline in the persecutions of her trial.
Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Mary, Lady Richardson, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation.
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She was actually detected shedding tears as the procession passed by during the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in summer...
Leisure and Society Georgiana Fullerton
The Leveson-Gower family moved in exclusive social circles, and Fullerton recalled in her unfinished memoir that she regularly attended the Children's Ball at Carlton House (residence of the Prince Regent), and on one occasion, while...
politics Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was instrumental in saving Fox 's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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Reception Catherine Gore
George IV is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
The Edinburgh Review judged it a respectable specimen
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas.
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of the genre of fashionable novel, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...
Textual Features Catherine Gore
She quotes Byron on the title-page.
Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley.
title-page
As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...
Reception Anne Grant
AG was offered an annual pension of £100 from George IV , in recognition of her literary efforts.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, p. ix - xxxvi.
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Textual Production Sarah Green
Mary O'Brien seems to have a good claim, since her The Political Monitor; or Regent 's Friend. Being a collection of poems published in England during the agitation of the regency: consisting of curious, interesting...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...
Publishing Martha Hale

Timeline

January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...

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January 1817

The Prince Regent , on his way to open Parliament , was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father on...

After January 1820: On ascending to the throne George IV abolished...

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After January 1820

On ascending to the throne George IV abolished the hoop and wide skirt in court dress.

29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...

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29 January 1820

King George III died and George IV (already Regent) assumed the throne.

November 1820: George IV's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline...

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November 1820

George IV 's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline was abandoned.

19 July 1821: George IV's coronation was marred for many...

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19 July 1821

George IV 's coronation was marred for many by the exclusion of his estranged wife, Caroline, and her highly visible efforts to participate.

7 August 1821: George IV's estranged wife, Queen Caroline,...

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7 August 1821

George IV 's estranged wife, Queen Caroline, died.

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.

1822: The Academy of Music in London was founded...

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1822

The Academy of Music in London was founded by John Fane, Lord Burghersh .

14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...

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14-29 August 1822

George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.

26 June 1830: King George IV died, leaving William IV to...

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26 June 1830

King George IV died, leaving William IV to assume the throne.

Summer 1830: In this year's elections (which followed...

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Summer 1830

In this year's elections (which followed the death of George IV ) no votes were cast in Wales and only 239 were cast in Scotland; most constituencies had a single candidate, so there was no contest.

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