King George III

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...

She felt with the Foxite Whigs that the king was guilty of folly, mismanagement, and Stuart-like behaviour, and was interfering unwarrantably with the processes of government.

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...

The controversial feature in this work was the depiction of King George III as a stingy nobleman (who, however, was not without some good points).

It was requested for performance by the king and attended by the Prince of Wales . The Critical Review suggested that even after ten years of writing for the stage EI was not yet...

A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen (and includes a tribute to King George the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to...

CH moved from Bath to Datchet when her brother William was appointed to a position (as astronomer, not musician) in the personal service of George III .

Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...

It is dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester , a daughter of George III who had acquired that title by marriage in 1816.

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.

MH composed the latest entry to be included in Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III.

The Philobiblon Society published just under sixty pages of MH 's Mrs. Harcourt's Diary of the Court of George III as item six in volume 13 of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, probably edited...

MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician.

MH kept a diary during her time as a courtier during the reign of George III . Parts of it were published during the late-nineteenth century, but it seems the only parts deemed worthy of...

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...