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Lord Frederick FitzClarence, GCH (9 December 1799 – 30 October 1854) was a

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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

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Military career

FitzClarence was commissioned as an officer in the

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'', 1855, p.304 While a

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in the

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, 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

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. 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

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(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

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in 1852. He died in office in October 1854.

Coat of arms

The

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of Lord Frederick FitzClarence were the

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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

References

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