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 122 CAMBRIDGE. Dukedom. III. Earldom. XII. > to I 1671. 1. Edgar Stuart, 4th but 1st surv. s. and h. ap. rf James, DcKS OF York (afterwards King Stoma II) by his 1st wife Anne above-named, was b. 14 Sep. 1667 at St. James' Palace. On 7 Oot. 1667 he was cr. BAKON OF DAUNTSEY, co. Wilts, and EARL AND DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. He rf. au infant at Richmond Palace 8, and was our. 12 June 1671 at Westm. Abbey, when his honours became extinct. Dukedom. %, Charles Stuart, 5th but 1st surv. s. and h. ap. of James, Duke of YORK (afterwards King James II) abovenamed, being IV. 1677. Ins 1st s. by his 2d wife Mary Beatrice Eleanora, da. of Alpbonso (D'Estk), Duke OF Modena, was b. 7 Nov. 1677 at St. James' Palace, and hup. there the next day. He was designated DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, but d. 12 Dec. 1677, aged 5 weeks, and was bur. privately on the 13th at Westm. Abbey. Dukedom V. Marquessate. j I. ^ 1706, to 1727. 1. George Augustus, Prince Electoral op Brunswick Luneburg, only s. and h. ap. of George Louis, Elector ok Hanover (afterwards King George L of Great Britain), was 6. 30 Oct. 1683 ; el. i April and inv. (at Hanover) 15 June 1706. KG., inst. 22 Dec. 1710. He was, 9 Nov. 1706 cr. BARON OF TEWKESBURY, co. Glouc, VISCOUNT NORTH- ALLERTON, co. York, EARL OF MILFORD- HAVEN, and .MARQUESS AND DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. On the accession of his Father to the throne, 1 Aug. 1714, he became DUKE OF CORNWALL, &c, and on 27 Sep. following he was cr. EARL OF CHESTER and PRINCE OF WALES. Ou 11 June 1727 Ue ■Ascended tUo throne as George II. when bis Peerage dignities lapsed to the Grown, Dukedom. 1. H.R.II. Adolphus Frederick, Prince of Great Britain', &c, also Duke of Brunswick-Luneburgh, 7lh and yst. VI. 1801. surv. s. of King George III, by Charlotte-Sophia, da. of Charles Louis, Di'KE OF Mi:cKi.ENnER(i-STHKi.iTz, was b. 24 Feb. 1771 ; ed. first at Kew and then at the Univ. of Gottingen ; became Col. in the Hanoverian army 1793 ; Lieut.-Gen. 1798 ; in 1803 was transferred to the British service ; General 1S03 : and subsequently, ISIS, Field Marshal, being Col. of the Coldstream Foot Guards, 1805, and Col. in Chief of the 60th Foot, 1827. When 12 years old he was el Kft(«) 2 June 1786. On 27 Nov. 1S01 he was or. BARON OF CULLODEN in North Britain, ( b ) EARL OF TIPPERARY in Ireland,(>') and DUKE OF CAM- BRIDGE. P.C. 1802 ; Chancellor Of the Univ. of St. Andrews, 1811 to 1814. From Dec. 1813 to June 1837 he was Viceroy ok Hanover, which kingdom at the latter date ceased to be united with England. G.C.B. 12 Aug. 1815 ; G.C.M.G. and Grand Master of that Order, 20 June 1825 ; Knight of the Black Eagle of Prussia, and (1844) Knight of St. Andrew of Russia. Ranger of Richmond Park, 1835 ; Ranger of St. James' and Hyde Parks, 1843 ; Warden of the New Forest, 1845, &c. Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge 4 July 1842. He m. 2 May ISIS at Cassel, and again on 1 June following in London, Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, da. of Frederick, Landgrave ok Hesse Cassel. He rf. 8 July 1S50 at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, Midx., in his 77th year. His widow, who was b. 25 July 1797, was living 1886. ( a ) The 4 younger sons of the Sovereign (afterwards the Dukes of Kent, Cumber- land, Sussex, and Cambridge) were all elected at the same date, in virtue of a new statue dat. 31 May 1786, and installed by dispensation 28 May 1801. ( b ) These adjuncts were probably made to give a shadow of a Scotch iuul an Irish Peerage. The same was done in the case of his next eldest br. who, on the baiue dale, was cr. " Baron of Arklow in Ireland, Earl of Inverness in A'wtli Britain and Duke of Sussex." The four elder Princes (York, Clarence. Kent and Cumberland) who had been cr. Dukes Injure the Union [I.J had each of them an actual Irish Peerage, fir. Ulster, Munster, Dublin, and Armagh
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