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ERNEST See also:AUGUSTUS (1771-1851) , 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:Hanover and See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, fifth son of the See also:English king See also:George III., was See also:born at See also:Kew on the 5th of See also:June 1771. Having studied at the university of See also:Gottingen, he entered the Hanoverian See also:army, serving as a See also:leader of See also:cavalry when See also:war See also:broke out between See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:France in 1793, and winning a reputation for bravery. He lost the sight of one See also:eye at the See also:battle of See also:Tournai in May 1794, and when Hanover withdrew from the war in 1795 he returned to See also:England, being made See also:lieutenant-See also:general in the See also:British army in 1799. In the same See also:year he was created duke of Cumberland and See also:Teviotdale and granted an See also:allowance of £12,000 a year, after which he held several lucrative military positions in England, and began to attend the sittings of the See also:House of Lords and to take See also:part in See also:political See also:life. A stanch Tory, the duke objected to all proposals of reform, especially to the granting of any See also:relief to the See also:Roman Catholics, and had great See also:influence with his See also:brother the See also:prince See also:regent, afterwards King George IV., in addition to being often consulted by the Tory leaders. In 18ro he was severely injured by an See also:assassin, probably his See also:valet Sellis, who was found dead; and subsequently two men were imprisoned for asserting that the duke had murdered his valet. Recovering from his wounds, Cumberland again proceeded to the seat of war; and having been made a British See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-See also:marshal, was in command of the Hanoverian army during the See also:campaigns of 1813 and 18,4, being See also:present, although not in See also:action, at the battle of .See also:Leipzig. In May 1815 Ernest married his See also:cousin, Frederica (1778-1841), daughter of See also:Charles II. duke of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz and widowof See also:Frederick, prince of Solms-Braunfels, a See also:union which was very repugnant to his See also:mother See also:Queen See also:Charlotte, and was disliked in England, where the duke's strong Toryism had made him unpopular. See also:Parliament refused to increase his allowance from £i8,000, to which it had been raised in 1804, to £24,000 a year, and indignant at the treatment he received the duke spent some years in See also:Berlin. Returning to England after the See also:accession of George IV. in 182o, his political See also:power was again considerable, while deaths in the royal See also:family made it likely that he would succeed to the See also:throne. Although his See also:personal influence with the See also:sovereign ceased upon the See also:death of George IV. in 183o, the duke continued to oppose all See also:measures for the See also:extension of See also:civil and religious See also:liberty, including the Reform See also:Bill of 1832; and his unpopularity was augmented by suspicions that he had favoured the formation of See also:Orange lodges in the army. When See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. died in June 1837, the crowns of Great Britain and Hanover were separated; and Ernest, as the nearest male See also:heir of the See also:late king, became king of Hanover. At once cancelling the constitution which William had given to his See also:kingdom in 1833, he acted as an See also:absolute monarch, and the constitution which he sanctioned in 184o was permeated with his own illiberal ideas. In See also:German politics he was vigilant and active, and mindful of the material interests of his See also:country. His reign, however, was a stormy one, and serious trouble between king and See also:people had arisen when he died at Herrenhausen on the 18th of See also:November 1851 (see HANOVER: See also:History). In spite of his arbitrary See also:rule and his reactionary ideas the king was popular among his subjects, and his statue in Hanover bears the words "Dem See also:Landes Vater sein treues See also:Volk. Ernest, who is generally regarded as the ablest of the sons of George III., See also:left an only See also:child, George, who succeeded him as king of Hanover.
See C. A. See also:Wilkinson, Reminiscences of the See also:Court and Times of King Ernest of Hanover (See also:London, 1886) ; von Malortie, See also:Konig See also:Ernst See also:August (Hanover, 1861); and the various histories of Great Britain and Hanover for the See also:period.
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