HANOVERIANS:

George the Third, 1760 to 1820

Farmer George

BORN: 4 June 1738, Norfolk House, London.
PARENTS: Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707 - 51),
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719 - 72).
MARRIED: (1) Hannah Lightfoot,
17 April 1759.
(in secret - documents impounded at Windsor, 1866)

(2) Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 - 1818),
8 September 1761, Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London.
ACCEDED: 25 October 1760
CROWNED: 22 September 1761, Westminster Abbey.
(declared unfit: 5 February 1811
Regency under future
George IV until 1820)
DIED: 29 January 1820,
Windsor Castle, Berkshire.
INTERRED: St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire.
CHILDREN: with Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streliz:
(1) George IV Augustus Frederick (1762 - 1830)
(2) Frederick Augustus, Duke of York
(1763 - 1827)
(3) William IV Henry (1765 - 1837)
(4) Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal (1766 - 1828)
(5) Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (father of Victoria) (1767 - 1820)
(6) Augusta Sophia (1768 - 1840)
(7) Elizabeth (1770 - 1840)
(8) Ernest August I, King of Hanover
(1771 - 1851)
(9) Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
(1774 - 1850)
(10) Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774 - 1850)
(11) Mary (1776 - 1857)
(12) Sophia Matilda (1777 - 1848)
(13) Octavius (1779 - 83)
(14) Alfred (1780 - 82)
(15) Amelia (1783 - 1810)

COEVAL
PERSONS:
Prime Ministers:
Duke of Newcastle (Whig)
Earl of Bute (Tory)
George Grenville (Whig)
Marquess of Rockingham (Whig)
Earl of Chatham (Whig)
Duke of Grafton (Whig)
Lord North (Tory)
Earl Shelburne (Whig)
Duke of Portland (Tory)
William Pitt (Tory)
Henry Addington (Tory)
Lord Grenville (Whig)
Spencer Perceval (Tory)
Earl of Liverpool (Tory)

Archbishops of Canterbury:
Thomas Secker
Frederick Cornwallis
John Moore
Charles Manners Sutton

NOTABLE
EVENTS:



Contemporary portrait of George the Third