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 178 CHESTER XXVI. 1729 H.R.H. Frederick. Lewis, Prince of Great Britain, to Electoral Prince of Brunswick and LUneburg, Duke of 1 75 1. Cornwall, Duke of Edenburgh, iifc., also Duke of Rothesay, &c. [S.], s. and h. ap. of King George II, was b. 20 Jan. 1707, and was, on 8 Jan. 1728/9 (above a year and a half after his father's accession to the Crown), cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER with rem. to his heirs. Kings of Great Britain. He d. v.p., 20 Mar. 1 750/1, when the last named dignities (together with the Duke- doms of Cornwall and of Rothesay, i^c.) lapsed to the Crown, the Duke- dom of Edenburgh, i^c, descending to his s. and h. as below mentioned. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1727. XXVII. 1 75 1 H.R.H. George William Frederick, Prince of to Great Britain, Electoral Prince of Brunswick and Lilne- 1760. burg, s. and h. of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, ^c, abovenamed, by Augusta, yst. da. of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe Gotha, was b. 24 May 1738, at Norfolk House, St. James's Sq., and bap. the same day. Nom. K.G. 22, inv. 23 June 1 749, and inst. (by proxy) 12 July 1750. On 20 Mar. 1 750/1 he sue. his father as Duke of Edenburgh, Marquess of Ely, Viscount Launceston and Baron Snawdon, and the next month, 20 Apr. 1751, was cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER with rem. to his heirs, Kings of Great Britain. (^) By the death of his grandfather, George II, he, on 25 Oct. 1760, ascended the throne as George III, when all his honours merged m the Crown. XXVIII. 1762 H.R.H. George Augustus Frederick, Prince of to Great Britain, Electoral Prince of Brunswick and Lt)NE- 1820. BURG, Duke of Cornwall, also Duke of Rothesay, &c. [S.], s. and h. ap. of George III, was 1^. 12 Aug. 1762, and, when seven days old, was, on 19 Aug. 1762 (previous to his baptism), cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs, Kings of Great Britain. On 29 Jan. 1820 he ascended the throne as George IV, when all his honours merged in the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1762. (^) As to any marriage between this Prince and Hannah Lightfoot, the fair Quakeress, that lady's marriage, 11 Dec. 1753, with Isaac Axford, who survived her (but with whom, apparently, she never cohabited), is of itself a sufficient disproof. The case, however, as to a liaison between them is quite otherwise, and no one can read the able articles of "Horace Bleackley" in N. & Q., lOth Ser., vol. viii, pp. 321, 404, ^c, without agreeing with that writer, that, in spite of the scepticism of that acute critic W. J. Thorns, "it is difficult to resist the conclusion that Hannah Lightfoot, the niece of Henry Wheeler, Linendraper, of Market Street, St. James's, the bride of Isaac Axford, and the renegade Quakeress, was the same Lady for whom George, Prince of Wales [1751-60] was believed by many of his contemporaries to have had a serious admiration." In the trial of "Ryves v. the Attorney General" a [fudged] certificate of his marriage, 17 Apr. 1759, with Hannah Lightfoot, was quoted. See Annual Reg., 1866, p. 227.