Lieutenant-General
Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...
Lord Frederick FitzClarence,
GCH (9 December 1799 – 30 October 1854) was a
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
officer and the third illegitimate son of King
William IV
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded h ...
by his mistress
Dorothea Jordan
Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress (lover), mistress of Duke of Clarence, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the moth ...
.
Military career
FitzClarence was commissioned as an officer in the
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
in 1814.
[Lord Frederick FitzClarence obituary]
''The Gentleman's Magazine
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'', 1855, p.304 While a
captain
Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...
in the
Coldstream Guards
The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the protection of the monarchy; due to this, it often participates in state ceremonia ...
, FitzClarence commanded a small detachment of Guards to act in support of the police with the arrest of the
Cato Street conspirators in 1820.
[ The arrest was not straightforward, and a scuffle ensued.
Frederick FitzClarence gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the ]36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
The 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1701. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Worcestershire Regiment in 1881. Its l ...
.[ On 24 May 1831, he was granted the rank of a marquess' younger son by his father, William IV, upon the latter's ascension to the throne.][ Having been invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the ]Royal Guelphic Order
The Royal Guelphic Order (german: Königliche Guelphen-Orden), sometimes referred to as the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, is a Hanoverian order of chivalry instituted on 28 April 1815 by the Prince Regent (later King George IV). It takes its name ...
(G.C.H.) that same year, he became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in 1847, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army
The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency, one of the three presidencies of Presidencies and provinces of British India, British India.
It was established in 1662 and governed by the East India Company until the Government of India A ...
in 1852. He died in office in October 1854.[
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Coat of arms
The coat of arms
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of Lord Frederick FitzClarence were the royal arms of King William IV (without the escutcheon of the Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and without the Crown of Hanover) debruised by ''a baton sinister (azure(?)) charged with two anchors (or(?))''.[Compare with arms of his elder brother the 1st Earl of Munster, as given in Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.813, only the charges on the baton sinister differ, for heraldic difference]
Family
On 19 May 1821, he married Lady Augusta Boyle (d. 28 July 1876), the eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Glasgow. They had two children:
*Augusta FitzClarence (December 1824 – 18 October 1865)
*William FitzClarence (b. & d. 1827)
Ancestry
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1799 births
1854 deaths
FitzClarence family
Illegitimate children of William IV of the United Kingdom
Younger sons of marquesses
36th Regiment of Foot officers
Coldstream Guards officers
British Army lieutenant generals
Equerries
Sons of kings