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 Features Mary Julia Young
The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...
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 “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”.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.
12
, No. 1, pp. 13-46.
13-14
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Jane Vardill
Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte (The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III and the Duke of Kent (The Eldest King...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
246
Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...
Residence Frances Trollope
She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne 's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region...
Residence Sarah Trimmer
The family of Sarah Kirby (later ST ) moved to London, where her father taught the future George III .
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Textual Features Eleanor Tatlock
Among ET 's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical...
Textual Features Catherine Talbot
This collection contained writing in many genres, including dialogues, pastorals, allegories, and imitations of Henry Macpherson 's fashionable Ossian. One of the essays paints a rosy picture of the necessity of working for bread...
Dedications Mary Stockdale
She published it as Miss S., through her father 's firm, and dedicated it to the king . She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...
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.
560
politics Susan Smythies
The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect...
Occupation Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
In her travels through the forests and around the lakes of the colony, EPS kept vivid diary records, and supplemented her words with sketches. From these sketches she later worked up watercolours of landscape, drawings...
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 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.

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November 1759: Lady Sarah Lennox was presented at court,...

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November 1759

Lady Sarah Lennox was presented at court, where the Prince of Wales (later George III) became infatuated with her.

: Lord Bute convinced the Prince of Wales (later...

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Spring1760

Lord Bute convinced the Prince of Wales (later George III) of his duty not to marry Lady Sarah Lennox , and hinted at a possible marriage with a German princess.

5 October 1760: A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish...

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5 October 1760

A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish couple who kept the toll-gate between East Lothian and Mid-Lothian.

25 October 1760: King George II died suddenly of a heart attack;...

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25 October 1760

King George II died suddenly of a heart attack; his grandson George III assumed the throne.

19 May 1761: A new parliament was called for this date,...

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19 May 1761

A new parliament was called for this date, following elections, as was obligatory on the accession of a new monarch .

20 May 1761: George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte...

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20 May 1761

George III consented to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; formal proposals began.

8 July 1761: The engagement of George III and Princess...

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8 July 1761

The engagement of George III and Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was announced at a Privy Council meeting.

22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...

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22 September 1761

King George III and Queen Charlotte were crowned; Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray each left a vivid account of the occasion, while Catherine Talbot wrote a prose poem about non-attendance, about spending a festal day...

26 May 1762: The Earl of Bute (a Tory, and the young king's...

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26 May 1762

The Earl of Bute (a Tory, and the young king 's mentor) became Prime Minister.

January-March 1765: George III was intermittently ill with his...

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January-March 1765

George III was intermittently ill with his first attack of what was almost certainly porphyria.

May 1765: A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the...

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May 1765

A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the government of Britain in case of the monarch's further illness.

About 1766: Printer and engraver John Spilsbury perfected...

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About 1766

Printer and engraver John Spilsbury perfected the dissected map which became the forerunner of the jigsaw puzzle.

December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...

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December 1768

George III signed the papers for establishing the Royal Academy of Arts . Angelica Kauffman or Kauffmann was among the twenty-eight founding members who first met in January 1769 to hear an address by Sir Joshua Reynolds

5 July 1775: The American Continental Congress adopted...

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5 July 1775

The American Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition, reiterating the colonists' grievances but professing their attachment to George III .

23 August 1775: George III proclaimed the American colonies...

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23 August 1775

George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion.

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