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Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was held by junior members of the British royal family. It was named after the county of Cumberland in England, and after Teviotdale in Scotland. Held by the Hanoverian royals, it was suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, which revoked titles belonging ...
- 24 April 1799
- Prince Ernest Augustus
- Royal Dukes
- Personal and Hereditary Titles
- The Irish Dukedom
- A Lively History
Royal dukedoms have been bestowed on princes for centuries. Typically given by the monarch to offspring coming of age or on their marriage, Edward III created the custom when he made his eldest son Duke of Cornwall in 1337. Sovereigns have exercised the privilege ever since, most recently when Her Majesty The Queen gave Prince Harry the dukedom of ...
A personal title is unusual. Royal dukedoms are hereditary; however, they cease to be royal once beyond the grandson of a monarch. “If a title becomes extinct, it will revert to the Crown and be eligible for re-creation,” says Koenig. Clarence is the oldest such title, created by Edward III as one of England’s first dukedoms in 1362. “It is the thi...
Certain dukedoms will never be recreated. “There will never be another Duke of Connaught because it is in Ireland,” asserts Koenig. “Victoria’s third son, Prince Arthur, was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.” Prince Arthur was Victoria’s last surviving son, reportedly her favourite and an exemplary duke. His son was a similarly safe pair of...
The dukedom of Cumberland has a lively history, too. The third creation was ‘Butcher’ Cumberland, Handel’s ‘Conquering Hero’ in Judas Maccabeus. The title then became Cumberland and Strathearn, its sole holder, Prince Henry, proving better at making love than war. Brother of George III, he married a commoner and was sued by Lord Grosvenor for ‘crim...
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Dukes of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1799) This double dukedom, in the Peerage of Great Britain, was bestowed on Prince Ernest Augustus (1771–1851) (later King of Hanover ), the fifth son and eighth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and King of Hanover. In 1919, it was suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 and, as of ...
Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain that was held by junior members of the British royal family. It was named after the county of Cumberland in England, and after Teviotdale in Scotland. Held by the Hanoverian royals, it was suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, which revoked titles belonging to enemies of the United Kingdom during the Great ...
1. HRH Prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg from birth, later2nd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (HM King George V of Hanover) created. 24 Apr 1799 Earl of Armagh (Peerage of Ireland) and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (Peerage of Great Britain) mar.
On 23 April 1799, Ernest Augustus was created Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh by his father the king. With a seat in the House of Lords, he took an interest in politics. Ernest held radical Tory views, and soon became a leader of the right of the party, he opposed Catholic emancipation and the Reform Act.
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 Prussia in 1866 and later ...
