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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Occupation Anne Damer
AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
Residence Mary Delany
In the early years of her second widowhood, MD took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 203-35.
213, 216
She spent her winters...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Delany
After Margaret, Duchess of Portland, died in 1785, MD must have felt the pinch. She had not taken regular money from her friend, but her long stays in the hospitable household at Bulstrode must have...
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
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
Friends, Associates Mary Delany
MD continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale ).
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
60
The king and queen were remarkably attentive to her in her widowhood. Prominent...
Dedications Dorothea Du Bois
DDB published at Dublin, by subscription and dedicated to the king , Poems on Several Occasions, by a Lady of Quality.
Du Bois, Dorothea. Poems on Several Occasions. Printed for the author, 1764.
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Literary Setting Daphne Du Maurier
The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...
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
Publishing Olaudah Equiano
Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III fell ill, probably...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Fanshawe
Her father, John Fanshawe, had a position in the royal household of George III . He died in 1816.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
2: 151
politics Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...
Publishing Anne Francis
The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III 's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria).
Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2010, pp. 171-92.
185
politics Anne Francis
AF was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised...

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.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
451

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.
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1023

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.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
133

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 .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
22

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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
56 (1786): 708

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.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
3
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
329, 342

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 .
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
188-9
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
345

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.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 124n1

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 .
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
33-4 and n91

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.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
241
Russell, Gillian. “Burke’s Dagger: Theatricality, Politics and Print Culture in the 1790s”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 1-16.
14
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
386

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 .
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
128

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.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
340-1

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.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
414
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
111

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.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 238

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