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See also:GEORGE V ., 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 (1819–1878), was the only son of Ernest See also:Augustus, king of Hanover and See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, and consequently a See also:grandson of the See also:English king George III. See also:Born in See also:Berlin on the 27th of May 1819, his youth was passed in See also:England and in Berlin until 1837, when his See also:father became king of Hanover and he took up his See also:residence in that See also:country. He lost the sight of one See also:eye during a childish illness, and the other by an See also:accident in 1833. Being thus totally See also:blind there were doubts whether he was qualified to succeed to the See also:government of Hanover; but his father decided that he should do so, as the See also:law of the dissolved See also:empire only excluded princes who were born blind. This decision was a fatal one to the See also:dynasty. Both from his father and from his maternal See also:uncle, See also:Charles See also:Frederick, See also:prince of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz (1785–1837), one of the most influential men at the Prussian See also:court, George had learned to take a very high and autocratic view of royal authority. His See also:blindness prevented him from acquiring the shrewdness and knowledge of the See also:world which had assisted his father, and he easily See also:fell into the hands of unwise, and perhaps dishonest and disloyal, advisers. A See also:man of deep religious feeling, he formed a fantastic conception of the See also:place assigned to the See also:house of See also:Guelph in the divine See also:economy, and had ideas of See also:founding a See also:great Guelph See also:state in See also:Europe. It is, therefore, not surprising that from 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 See also:accession in See also:November 1851 he was constantly engaged in disputes with his Landtag or See also:parliament, and was consequently in a weak and perilous position when the crisis in the affairs of See also:Germany came in 1866. Having supported See also:Austria in the See also:diet of the See also:German See also:confederation in See also:June x866, he refused, contrary to the wishes of his parliament, to assent to the Prussian demand that Hanover should observe an unarmed See also:neutrality during the See also:war. As a result his country and his See also:capital were at once occupied by the Prussians, to whom his See also:army surrendered on the 29th of June 1866, and in the following See also:September Hanover was formally annexed by See also:Prussia. From his See also:retreat at Hietzing near See also:Vienna, George appealed in vain to the See also:powers of Europe; and supported by a large number of his subjects, an agitation was carried on which for a time caused some embarrassment to Prussia. All these efforts, however, to bring about a restoration were unavailing, and the king passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life at Gmtinden in Austria, or in See also:France, refusing to the last to be reconciled with the Prussian government. Whilst visiting See also:Paris for medical See also:advice he died in that See also:city on the 12th of June 1878, and was buried in St George's See also:chapel, See also:Windsor. In See also:February 1843 he had married See also:Marie, daughter of See also:Joseph, duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Altenburg, by whom he See also:left a son and two daughters. His son, Ernest Augustus, duke of Cumberland (b. 1845), continued to maintain the claim of his house to the See also:kingdom of Hanover.
By the See also:capitulation of 1866 the king was allowed to retain his See also:personal See also:property, which included See also:money and securitiesequal to nearly £1i5oo,000, which had been sent to England before the Prussian invasion of Hanover. The See also:crown jewels had also been secretly conveyed to England. His valuable See also:plate, which had been hidden at Herrenhausen, was restored to him in 1867; his See also:palace at Herrenhausen, near Hanover, was reserved as his property; and in 1867 the Prussian government agreed to compensate him for the loss of his landed estates, but owing to his continued hostility the See also:payment of the See also:interest on this sum was suspended in the following See also:year (see HANOVER).
See O. See also:Klopp, See also:Konig Georg V. (Hanover, 1878) ; O. Theodor, Erinnerungen an Georg V. (See also:Bremerhaven, 1878) ; and O. Meding, Memoiren zur Zeitgeschichte (See also:Leipzig, 1881-1884).
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