GLOUCESTER. V. 16S9, Prince William, 1st s. and h. ap. of George, Thinc'E to of Denmark, by Anne, 2d (In. of King James II. (afterwards, 1700. 1702-14, Queen Anne was h. 24 July 1CS9, at Hampton Court and bap. the 276b, when he was deelared( a ) by King William III. (his uncle and godfather) to be DUKE OF CLOUCESTER,(>>) and, as such, was elected and invested KG., 0 Jan. 1695/6. He d. 30 July 1700, aged 11, at Windsor and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. VI. 1714? H.R.II. Prince FREDERICK Lewis, s. and h. ap. of to George Augustus, Prince 01 Wales (afterwards, 1727, King 1726. George EC.), 6. 20 Jan. 1707, was announced in the Gazette, of 11 Jan. 1717/8, as having received a Royal warrant, dat. the 10th inst. for Ill's creation as DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,( c ) having apparently, ( d ) since the accession of his grandfather, in 171-1. to the throne, been so styled. He continued to be generally known by such title (tho' it was not recognised on bis installation as KG., 30 April 1718, or, indeed by any o[Kc!al docuraent.(°) He was elevated to the peerage, 26 July 1726, as DUKE OF EDINBURGH in the patent of which creation, no mention was made of the title of Gloucester.^ He became, 11 June 1727, DUKE OF CORNWALL and was a: 8 Jan. 1728/9, Prince of Wales, Ac. He d. V.p., 20 March 1750/1. See fuller account of him, under Cornwall, Dukedom of, 1727 to 1751 . V. 1764. 1. H.R.II. William Henry, 3ds. of II.R.II. Frederick, Prince of Wales, by Augusta, da. of Frederick, Dvke of Sane Gotha, b. 14 Nov. [O.S.], 1743, at Leicester Honsc, 6«;>. 25th at St. Anne's, feoho, Midx. ; el. and inv. KG., 27 May ; inst., 22 Sep. 1762; and was (when of full ago) cr. by his br., King George III., 19 Nov. 1764, EARL OF CONNAUGHT [I.] and DUKE OF GLOUCESTER(e) AND EDINBURGH [G.B.], taking his seat 10 Jan ( a ) No patent of such creation, was ever passed, neither did tho Royal warrant which exists for the same, pass the signet. ( b j See vol. ii, p. 274, note " a," sub " Clare," for a list of the (numerous) Dukedoms cr. by William III. ( c ) It is not improbable that the squabble that arose at that time between the King and his son was the cause of the uoncompletion of the creation. The Royal warrant for the patent, never passed the signet. (■>) It is stated in the memoirs of the Margravine of Bairetitli, that, since 1714, he assumed that title. (°) The following note hereon by T. W. King is in the book mentioned above (p. 45, note "e") made Nov 1851, "Searched at the Rolls Chapel for tho patent from the commencement of the reign of Geo. I., to the end in the calendar or index to the patent rolls, and also seriatim in the docrjuets contained in the same vol., but found no trace of the creation of the Dukedom of Gloucester." O The subsequent suppression of the title of Gloucester, which had thus been announced in the Loudon Gazette and by which the Prince had hitherto been popularly known for the last 12 or eight years, and the substitution of the title of Edinburgh in its place, is quite inexplicable, and has given rise to an ingenious theory of Mr. Nichols (Gent. Mag. vol. xxxvi, n.s. p. 512, Nov. 1851), that the Dukedom of Gloucester was intended for the younger son of the Prince of Wales, viz. George William, 6. 2 Nov. 1717 who d. 6 Feb. following. His existence at the time of the Gazette notice is certainly remarkable, but the baby Prince is not described (like his cousin, William, the Duke elect from 1689 to 1700, had been) as Duke of Gloucester on his coffin plate, neither is there any other good reason for supposing the intended elevation of this younger son, while there is ample as to that of the eldest. See an article of Mr. Edward Solly, thereon in " N. and Q," 5th a., xii, p. 423. (8) The conjunction of the title of Gloucester with Edinburgh seems a sort of a recognition of it having been used by the last Duke of Edinburgh, i.e. Frederick, afterwards Prince of Wales, as abovementioned.
