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Prince George, Duke of Cumberland. Prince George, Duke of Cumberland may refer to either of the following two British princes: Prince George of Denmark, the first British Royal Consort. George V of Hanover, a grandchild of George III of the United Kingdom.
Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale ( German: Ernst August; 21 September 1845 – 14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernest Augustus was deprived of the throne of Hanover upon its annexation by ...
Soldier, statesman, privateer, and scientist. Signature. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 ( O.S.) [27 December 1619 (N.S.)] [1] – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) [9 December 1682 (N.S)]) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist ...
The title of Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn was created on 22 October 1766 in the Peerage of Great Britain. This double dukedom and the Earldom of Dublin in the Peerage of Ireland were bestowed on Prince Henry, the third son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and grandson of King George II. Since Prince Henry died without legitimate children ...
Prince William Augustus (26 April 1721 [N.S.] – 31 October 1765), was a younger son of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, and Duke of Cumberland from 1726. He is generally best remembered for his role in putting down the Jacobite Rising at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and as such is also known as "Butcher" Cumberland to this day. Despite Culloden, he had a largely ...
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, is buried with his parents and other members of his family in the Hanoverian vault beneath the central aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. He has no monument but the following short inscription appears on a lozenge stone in the floor: William Augustus D. of Cumberland son of K. Geo. II 1765.
Prince William Augustus, third and youngest son of King George II of Great Britain and Queen Caroline was born on 15 April 1721 at Leicester House at Charing near London. Much of his youth was spent with his tutor Stephen Poyntz at Midgham House in Berkshire. He was educated in naval career, but his interest was more towards army.
