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 262 CLARENCE (the same date and place as that of the marriage (*) of his next br., the Duke of Kent), Adelaide Louisa Theresa Caroline Amelia, ist da. of Georg Friedrich Karl, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, by Louisa Eleanora, da. of Christian Albrecht Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She, who was b. 13 Aug. 1792, d. 2 Dec. 1849. He ascended the throne as William IV, 26 June 1830, when all his honours merged in the Crown. DUKEDOM. I. //./?.//. Albert Victor Christian Edward, Prince ^ OF THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and ° Ireland, Duke of SaxonYjC') ist s. and h. ap. of H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, ^~' fffc. by Alexandra, ist da. of Christiern IX, King of Den- mark, was l>. at Frogmore House, Berks, 8 Jan., and bap. 10 Mar. 1864, in the chapel of Buckingham palace; entered the Royal Navy (with his yr. br.) 1877, becoming a midshipman 1880 ; ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge 1883; Lieut. loth Hussars 1886; Capt. 9th Lancers, Capt. 3rd King's Royal Rifles, and A.D.C. to the Queen, 1887; Major loth Hussars 1889; Hon. Col. 4th regt. Bengal infantry, ist Punjaub cavalry and 4th Bombay cavalry; K.G. 3 Sep. 1883; K.P. 28 June 1887; Grand Cross of the Lion of the Netherlands; of Charles III of Spain; the Annunciata of Italy; the Star of Roumania; the Osmanli of Turkey; the Tower and Sword of Portugal; and the Southern Cross of Brazil. Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge and Dublin. He was cr., 24 May 1890, EARL OF ATHLONE and DUKE OF CLARENCE AND OF AVONDALE.('=) He d. unm. and v.p., of pneumonia, at the house of his Tomboy " with " The Irish Manager," i.e. Richard Daly. See Appendix B in the last vol. of this work. {') See note sub Cambridge. C") His German title of inheritance is omitted in the patent of creation, and he is described therein (somewhat colloquially) as " Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward of JFales" so also is his brother described, when, two years later, cr. Duke of York. " i^) Hamilton of Wishaw states of Avondale (otherwise Avandale, Avendale or Evendale), a parish, of nearly 40,000 acres, in Lanarkshire, that " this Baronie did anciently belong to the Bairds, and thereafter came to Sinclair, and from them to the Earle of Douglas, with whom it continued several! ages; and after his fatall forfaulture in anno 1455 it was given by King James III to Andrew Stewart, whom he created Lord Avendale and it continued with him and his heires until 1538 or thereby, that he exchanged it with Sir James Hamilton for the Baronie of Ochiltree," from whom it has passed to the present Dukes of Hamilton. It has indeed given the name of an Earldom [S.] to the family of Douglas, 1437 to 1455, and of a Barony [S.] to that