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 CLARENCE 261 the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. He was accused ot high treason, found guilty, and attainted, 8 Feb. 14.JJ/8, whereby all his honours htczmt forfeited. He was executed Q in the Tower of London 18 Feb. following (said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey), and was bur. at Tewkesbury, aged 28. For particulars of his s. and h. see Warwick, Earldom of. DUKEDOM. I. H.R.H. Prince William Henry, 3rd s. of George .„ - III, by Charlotte Sophia, da. of Karl Ludwig, Duke of ' " Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was b. 21 Aug., and bap. g 20 Sep. 1765, at St. James's Palace. At the age of five ^ ' he was, 5 Apr. 1770, nom. K.T., and, when 17, was nom., 19 Apr. 1782, K.G., inst. 28 May 1801. Joined the Royal Nav}' in May 1779, becoming Post Captain, 1786; Rear Adm. 1790; Vice Adm. 1794; Adm. 1799. Adm. of the Fleet, 1811-21, and 1823-30; and from May 1827 to Aug. 1828, Lord High Admiral.(''). On 20 May 1789 he was cr. EARL OF MUNSTER [L], and, in the same patent, DUKE OF CLARENCE and ST. ANDREWS.(=) P.C. 23 June 1789. F.S.A. 3 Feb. 1791; Ranger of Greenwich Park, 1794-97; Ranger of Bushey Park 1 797-1 830; Knight of the Ste. Esprit of France, 24 Apr. 1 8 14; Knight of St. Andrew of Russia; Knight of the Black Eagle of Prussia; G.C.B., 2 Jan. 1815; G.C.H., 12 Aug. 1815. D.C.L. of Oxford, by diploma, 18 Oct. 1816; General of Marines, 1823-30; F.R.S. 26 Apr. 1827; Elder Brother of the Trinity House, 1828 till his death, and Master thereof 1829-31 .(^) He m., 1 1 July 1 8 1 8, at Kew Palace, Surrey Duke's order, when living in the manor of Cayford, carried 70 miles, tried, convicted and hanged at Warwick, on the charge of having " given the said Isabel a venomous drink of ale mixed with poison, of which the latter sickened until the Sunday before Christmas, on which day she died." {Patent Roll). V.G. (=) Shakespere attributes his death to the machinations of his brother Richard, and Sir Thomas More states that his execution was but half-heartedly opposed by Richard (afterwards Richard III). V.G. ('') For this and other great offices of state see vol. ii, Appendix D. ("=) Selected, presumably, out of compliment to Scotland, just as " York and Albany;" "Gloucester and Edinburgh;" "Kent and Strathearn;" "Cumberland and Teviotdale," iifc. C^) He voted against Cath. Emancipation in 1828, and for it in 1829. He appears in 1790, "The Royal Sailor and Polly Finch," in the notorious tete-a-tetr portraits in the Town and Country Mag., vol. xxii, p. 9, where also, in 1786 (vol. xviii, p. 625), had appeared Mrs. Jordan, his subsequent mistress, as "Mrs.