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 CUMBERLAND 573 Gen. of the Army, Mar. 1744/5-57, being chief in command at the bloody, well fought, but unsuccessful battle of Fontenoy 1745, and at the battle of Culloden, I746.(^) He resigned all his military commands, after con- cluding the convention of Klosterseven with the French, signed Sep. 1757 (whereby 38,000 Hanoverians laid down their arms), a treaty considered very humiliating by the King. P.C. 17 May 1742; LL.D. Glasgow 1746; Chancellor of the Univ. of St. Andrew's 1 746, and of the Univ. of Dublin 175 1, both till his death; Ranger of Windsor Forest and Great Park July 1746, and of Cranborne Chase 1751, both till his death. From Apr. to Sep. 1755 he was one of the Lords Justices or the Realm. F.R.S. 4 Dec. 1760. A Whig. He d. unm., suddenly, from the bursting of a blood vessel in his head, at his house in Upper Grosvenor Str., 31 Oct. and was bur. 10 Nov. 1765, aged 44, in Westm. Abbey, when all his honours became extinct.i^) Admon. Nov. 1765. IV. 1766 H.R.H. Henry Frederick., 4th s. of Frederick, to Prince of Wales, by Augusta, da. of Friedrich, Duke 1790. OF Saxe Gotha, was b. at Leicester House, 16 Oct., and bap. there 19 Nov. 1745, in the parish of St. Anne's, Soho, Midx. Ranger of Windsor Forest and Great Park July 1766 till his death. He was cr., 22 Oct. 1766, EARL OF DUB- LIN [I.] and DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND STRATHEARN [G.B.J.Q P.C. 3 Dec. 1766; nom. and inv. K.G. 21 Dec. 1767, inst. 25 July 1771. In 1768 he entered the Navy;^) Rear Adm. 1769, Vice Adm. 1770, Adm. 1778, becoming finally in 1782 Adm. of the White. Grand Master of Freemasons 1782 till his death; F.R.S. Earl of Albemarle (8) General Honywood (9) Hawley (10) Cope (11) Ligonier (12) Campbell (13) Bland (14) Onslow (15) Pulteney (16) Huske. " This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted." See Diary of Miss Gertrude Savile, where the loth name (Cosin) is given in error for that of Cope. (*) From his cruelty to the Jacobites at this time he was thereafter known as "The Butcher." V.G. C') By the daughter of a soldier in Scotland he had (before she was 18) three illegitimate children, of whom one, when she was 19, m. Col. Suckling, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, many years Master of Windsor barracks, a nephew of the mother of Nelson. Henry Pelham described him as " open, frank, resolute, and perhaps hasty." " Of all the members of the Royal Family, with the exception of Queen Caroline, he was the only one who possessed any remarkable ability ... He was noted, too, for a rugged truthfulness, for a conscientious energy of administration, for an uncom- plaining loyalty, for a fidelity to his friends and engagements, not common among the great personages of his time." (Lecky). A full length portrait of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds is at Hinchingbrooke. V.G. ("=) A title being taken from each of the 3 kingdoms, as has been the custom, since the time of George III, when peerages are conferred on members of the Royal family. C*) See as to his taste for " Fresh water" vol. i. Appendix H.