King George IV

Standard Name: George IV, King
Used Form: Prince of Wales
Used Form: Prince Regent
Used Form: George the Fourth

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Friends, Associates Lady Anne Barnard
Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot...
Friends, Associates Melesina Trench
Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton , the writer Antoine de Rivarol , Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte
Friends, Associates Grace Elliott
She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince , according to the account in notes to her published journal.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
150-1
Her closest friends at this time, say her biographers, were Lady Worsley (whose chequered career...
Friends, Associates Eliza Fenwick
Eliza and John Fenwick were close friends of Maria Reveley , her first husband the architect Willey Reveley , and their son the architect and engineer Henry Willey Reveley . (Their son was a playmate...
Leisure and Society Mary Robinson
As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...
Leisure and Society Georgiana Fullerton
The Leveson-Gower family moved in exclusive social circles, and Fullerton recalled in her unfinished memoir that she regularly attended the Children's Ball at Carlton House (residence of the Prince Regent), and on one occasion, while...
Leisure and Society Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny
Mary Champion de Crespigny and her husband gave a fête champetre at Champion Lodge, for an assemblage of about 500 noble and distinguished persons,
Ietros,. “Fête Champêtre given by Mr. and Mrs. Crespigny, on the 23d of June last, at Champion Lodge, Camberwell”. Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.
74: 2
, July 1804, pp. 621-2.
621
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
74: 2 (July 1804): 621
including the Prince of Wales
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, probably found it easier in Rome than in London to have her rank taken at face value, without reference to her sexually dubious career. When the rejected Queen Caroline arrived in...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III felt...
Literary responses Anna Jane Vardill
This volume was reviewed in the European Magazine in August by Joseph Moser , who was at the time its leading poetry contributor.
De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 2007, http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/.
Lord Moira , writing about the receipt of his own copy, assured...
Literary Setting Daphne Du Maurier
The novel was set during the period when King George III was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke , who was mistress to the king's second son, was...
Occupation Mary Harcourt
MH occupied a court position during the anxious time when George III was first attacked by apparent insanity. She seems to have been the one responsible for recommending Dr Francis Willis as his physician.
Harcourt, Mary. “Diary of the Court of King George III”. Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 1871–1872.
3n1
Occupation Ellis Cornelia Knight
At the request of the Prince Regent (later George IV ), and the urgings of the princesses Mary , Elizabeth , and Sophia , ECK agreed to serve as one of the lady companions to...
Occupation Mary Robinson
MR caught the eye of the young Prince of Wales as she acted Perdita in a royal command performance of Shakespeare 's The Winter's Tale; she was twenty-two (or twenty-three) to his seventeen.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
xii
Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen, 1994.
101
Nathan, Alix. “Mistaken or Misled? Mary Robinson’s Birth Date”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 1, 2002, pp. 139-42.
139
Occupation William Lisle Bowles
WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

Timeline

January 1817: The Prince Regent, on his way to open Parliament,...

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January 1817

The Prince Regent , on his way to open Parliament , was the target of (probably) a stone which broke the window of the state coach; like a similar missile hurled at his father on...

After January 1820: On ascending to the throne George IV abolished...

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After January 1820

On ascending to the throne George IV abolished the hoop and wide skirt in court dress.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
70

29 January 1820: King George III died and George IV (already...

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29 January 1820

King George III died and George IV (already Regent) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
xi, 151
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
46

November 1820: George IV's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline...

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November 1820

George IV 's bill for divorcing Queen Caroline was abandoned.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358

19 July 1821: George IV's coronation was marred for many...

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19 July 1821

George IV 's coronation was marred for many by the exclusion of his estranged wife, Caroline, and her highly visible efforts to participate.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
230
Luttrell, Barbara. The Prim Romantic. Chatto and Windus, 1965.
204

7 August 1821: George IV's estranged wife, Queen Caroline,...

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7 August 1821

George IV 's estranged wife, Queen Caroline, died.
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
358
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
248

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
186-7

1822: The Academy of Music in London was founded...

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1822

The Academy of Music in London was founded by John Fane, Lord Burghersh .
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
Sadie, Stanley, and Alison Latham, editors. The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music. W. W. Norton, 1988.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.

14-29 August 1822: George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning...

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14-29 August 1822

George IV visited Edinburgh (first reigning monarch to do so since the 1630s); Sir Walter Scott laid on a lavish display of Scottish national pride.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
235, 387n12, 403n94
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

26 June 1830: King George IV died, leaving William IV to...

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26 June 1830

King George IV died, leaving William IV to assume the throne.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
47
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606

Summer 1830: In this year's elections (which followed...

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Summer 1830

In this year's elections (which followed the death of George IV ) no votes were cast in Wales and only 239 were cast in Scotland; most constituencies had a single candidate, so there was...

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