Frederick Willem van Reede, 6th Earl of Athlone (21 October 1766 - 5 December 1810) became

Earl of Athlone The title of Earl of Athlone has been created three times. History It was created first in the Peerage of Ireland in 1692 by William III of England, King William III for General Godard van Reede, 1st Earl of Athlone, Baron van Reede, Lord of ...

on his father's death, 13 December 1808. He married, firstly and without issue, in March 1789 at Utrecht, Cornelia Adriaana Munter. They were divorced 5 July 1793 on the basis of her criminal consort with a German officer, Col. von Bosc. She died 24 October 1828 at Dresden. He married secondly, on 11 November 1800, Maria Eden, daughter of Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet of Durham. He died, insane and without issue, of "water on the brain" at Greenwich, and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother. His widow married 30 October 1821, as his second wife, Vice Admiral Sir

William Johnstone Hope Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB (16 August 1766 – 2 May 1831) was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet ...

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1766 births Earls in the Peerage of Ireland 1810 deaths {{Ireland-earl-stub