The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B.

  • Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937.
Date:
1913
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    Marines, under the Board of Admiralty. Later he became Registrar of Gibraltar, Clerk of the Council, Registrar of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Ranger of Cranborne Chace, which appointments he was holding at the time of his death in 1827. When in London, Mr. and IMrs. George Villiers lived in Upper Grosvenor Street, whence, on 12th January 1800, ]\lr. Villiers dispatched a note to Lord Boringdon informing him that his sister, ' after ten hours' very severe suffering, had borne a very fine boy,' the subject of the following memoir. In accordance with a fashion set in England under the Hanoverian dynasty, a triplet of baptismal names was bestowed upon the unconscious infant. To the name George he had a hereditary claim ; it had already become as popular under the aforesaid dynasty as that of William was at one time under the Norman kings of England,^ and he received in addition the names of William Frederick. ^ In the year 1173 Sir William St. John and Sir William Fitzhamon gave a dinner-party restricted to knights bearing the name of William. The company numbered one hundred and twenty.