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 218 YORK. IX. 1716, i. Ernest Augustus {of Hanover^ formerly of Bruns- to viek), DuKB op Brunbwick-Lunbdurgh, yst. and last biift. br. 1728. of Qeorg^ L, being 6th h. of Kriiest Augustus, Erjccroit 11692- 1608JUF IUnovbk [d. 23 Jan. 1698|ngod 69]i by Si>|iliiu {of DohaiiM), yst cif the 13 children of Frederic V, Klbotou Paijitink and [1619-20] Kino op Boukuia, by Kliuibetb, da. of James I, was 6. 7 Sep. 1674 ; was President ef the Council uf Hanuver, 1714-28 ; Bishop of Osnabunfli, 1716-28, and was er. by his said br.. 6 July 1716, EARL OF ULSTKlt [I.] and DUKE OF YOUK AND ALBAN V [O.BJC*) ; el. KO. 3 July and iuv. 24 Dec. 1617, at Hanover ; being inst (by proxy) 30 April 1718. He d, unm. 14 Aug. 1728, aged 63, when all hU honoun bDcauie cxthieL IX. 1740 f 1. Hbnry-Bxnbdict-Maria-Olbmbnt Stuart, 2d to and yst. s. of James Francis Edwa rd, s ometime Ddkb op ' 1807. CoRHWALL, lUular King James III. [1701-1766], by Mary Olemeutinat da. of James Lewis Sobibski, Prince of Poland, which James Francis was only surv. s. and h. of James H. ; was b. 21 March 1726 at Home, and was or. by his said father (the titular James Uf), probably about 1740, at his age uf 16, DUKE OF YOUK. He was Bishop uf Ostia and Frosoati, being cr. a Cardinal Bishop, by Pofto Benedict XIV., 3 July 1747, and popularly known as *' Cardinal York** By the death (s.p. legit.) of his elder br., the titular King Oharles IIL, 81 Jan. 1788 (see vol. i., p. &2,fu& ^ Aijiany ") he became titular King, as Henry XX. He d. unm. at Frascati, 13 July 1807(^) in his 83d year, when all hit honoun, as also the male line of the Royal House of Stuart (descendants of Robert II, King of Scotland, 1371-90), became extVML He was bur. (with his father and broiler) at St. Peter's, Home. M.I. X. 1760, 1. HM.II. Edward Augustus, Prinob op Grbat to Britain and Ibbland, also Dukb op Brunswick-Lunkbubqu, 1767. n«3ct br. of George IH., being 2d s. of //.A.//. Frederick, Pkincb OP Walbs (s. and h. ap. of Oeorge II.) by Augusta, da. of Frederick, DuKB OP Saxb-Gotha, was b. 14 Msrch 1738/9, at Norfolk House, St. James' Square, and bap. there 11 April following ; el. and in v. X.G. 13 March and inst. (by proxy) 4 June 1762; entered the royal navy 1768, becoming, eventually, in 1762, Vice Admiral of the Blue. He was er. by his said br., 1 April 1760, EARL OF ULSTER [I.] and DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY [G.B.].(«) P.C. 1760; F.R.S., 27 Nov. 1760 ; Keeper of Windsor Forest and Cranbome Chace, 1766-67. He d. unm. (»f a malignant fever, at Monaco in Italy, 17 Sep. and was bur. 3 Nov. 1767 ^from the Jerusalem Chamber), in Westm. Abboy, aged 28,(*') when cM his honours became extinct. Will dat. 31 Aug. 1763, pr. 3 Oct 1767. XL 1784, 1: H.R.H. Frbdbrigk, Prinob of Grbat Britain to AND Ibbland, also Dukb op Bbunswiok-Lunbburg, 2d s. of 1827. 06orge HI., by Charlotte Sophia, da. of Charles Louis, Grand Dukb op Mboklbnbukg-Strbutz, was 6. 16 Aug. 1763 at St. James' palace ^1. Bishop of Osnaburgh,(<>) 27 Feb. 1764 and known by that designation till 1784 ; TLB. 80 Deo. 1767 ; el. and inv. K.Q. 19 June and inst. 26 July 1771 ; Col {») See p. 219, note " b." (b) " He is looked upon here [Rome] as proud and foolish, but, withal, charitable and humane" [John Kerrich to Ed. Weston, 7 Oct 1762]. («) H. Walpole [Lettert] writes of him in 1761 as *' a very plain boy, with strange loose eyes." His portrait (with the riband of the Garter) " after A. Walker, eugr.," is given in ** DoyU." (a) He is the " Right Reverend Osnaburgh " in a well known poem of Bums. A letter from '* Edward Herries " in " The Times " (Jan. 1894) headed " British Peers and German Sovereigns " points out the analogy of this ciuie with that of the present (1897) Duke of Edinburgh, reigning Duke of Saxe Cobura and Gotha, stating that the Bishop of Osnaburgh "more properly Osnabrtick ''^ was "a member of the Germanio Dody and a Sovereign Prince entiUed to sit and vote among the Princes in