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See also:ALFRED ERNEST See also:ALBERT , See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Coburg and See also:Gotha, and duke of See also:Edinburgh (1844—1900), second son and See also:fourth See also:child of See also:Queen See also:Victoria, was See also:born at See also:Windsor See also:Castle on the 6th of See also:August 1844. In 1856 it was decided that the See also:prince, in accordance with his own wishes, should enter the See also:navy, and a See also:separate See also:establishment was accordingly assigned to him, with See also:Lieutenant Sowell, R. E., as See also:governor. He passed a most creditable examination for See also:midshipman in August 1858, and being appointed to the " Euryalus," at once began to See also:work hard at the See also:practical See also:part of his profession. In See also:July 186o, while on this See also:ship, he paid an See also:official visit to the Cape, and made a very favourable impression both on the colonials and on the native chiefs. On the See also:abdication of See also:Otto, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Greece, in 1862, Prince Alfred was chosen by the whole See also:people to succeedhim, but See also:political conventions of See also:long See also:standing rendered it impossible for the See also:British See also:government to accede to their wishes. The prince therefore remained in the navy, and was promoted lieutenant on the .24th of See also:February 1863 and See also:captain on the 23rd of February 1866, being then appointed to the command of the " Galatea." On attaining his See also:majority in 1865 the prince was created duke of Edinburgh and See also:earl of See also:Ulster, with an See also:annuity of £15,000 granted by See also:parliament. While still in command of the " Galatea " the duke started from See also:Plymouth on the 24th of See also:January 1867 for his voyage See also:round the See also:world. On the 11th of See also:June 1867 he See also:left See also:Gibraltar and reached the Cape on the 24th of July, and landed at See also:Glenelg, See also:South See also:Australia, on the 31st of See also:October. Being the first See also:English prince to visit Australia, the duke was received with the greatest See also:enthusiasm. During his stay of nearly five months he visited See also:Adelaide, See also:Melbourne, See also:Sydney, See also:Brisbane and See also:Tasmania; and it was on his second visit to Sydney that, while attending a public See also:picnic at Clonfert in aid of the Sailors' See also:Home, an Irishman named O'Farrell shot him in the back with a revolver. The See also:wound was fortunately not dangerous, and within a See also:month the duke was able to resume command of his ship and return home. He reached Spithead on the 26th of June 1868, after an See also:absence of seventeen months. The duke's next voyage was to See also:India, where he arrived in See also:December 1869. Both there and at Hong See also:Kong, which he visited on the way, he was the first British prince to set See also:foot in the See also:country. The native rulers of India vied with one another in the magnificence of their entertainments during the duke's stay of three months. On the 23rd of January 1874 the See also:marriage of the duke to the See also:grand-duchess See also:Marie Alexandrovna, only daughter of See also:Alexander II., See also:emperor of See also:Russia, was celebrated at St See also:Petersburg, and the See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride and bridegroom made their public entry into See also:London on the 12th of See also:March. The duke still devoted himself to his profession, showing See also:complete mastery of his duties and unusual skill in See also:naval See also:tactics. He was promoted See also:rear-See also:admiral on the 30th of December 1878; See also:vice-admiral, loth of See also:November 1882; admiral, 18th of October 1887; and received his See also:baton as admiral of the See also:Fleet, 3rd of June 1893. He commanded the Channel fleet, 1883—1884; the Mediterranean fleet, 1886—1889; and was See also:commander-in-See also:chief at See also:Davenport, 189o-1893. He always paid the greatest See also:attention to his official duties and was most efficient as an admiral.
On the See also:death of his See also:uncle, Ernest II., duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on the 22nd of August 1893, the vacant duchy See also:fell to the duke of Edinburgh, for the prince of See also:Wales had renounced his right to the See also:succession. At first regarded with some coldness as a " foreigner," he gradually gained popularity, and by the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his death, on the 3oth of July 1900, he had completely won the See also:good See also:opinion of his subjects. The duke was exceedingly fond of See also:music and an excellent violinist, and took a prominent part in establishing the Royal See also:College of Music. He was also a keen See also:collector of See also:glass and ceramic See also:ware, and his collection, valued at See also:half a million of marks, was presented by his widow to the " Veste Coburg," near Coburg. When he became duke of Saxe-Coburg he surrendered his English See also:allowance of 15,000 a See also:year, but the £1o,000 granted in addition by parliament on his marriage he retained in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to keep up See also:Clarence See also:House. The duke had one son, who died unmarried on the 6th of February 1899, and four daughters. The third daughter, Princess Alexandra Louisa See also:Olga Victoria, married the hereditary prince Ernest of Hoheniohe-Langenburg, who became See also:regent of the duchy of Coburg during the minority of the deceased duke's See also:nephew, the See also:young duke of See also:Albany, to whom the succession fell. (G. F.
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