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Adolphus Duke of Cambridge

1774 – 1850 · Generation XXXII · House of Hanover

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Adolphus Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850). The seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte, he was born at the Queen’s House in London and studied at the University of Göttingen with his brothers Ernest and Augustus. Trained in Hanoverian service, he was wounded and briefly captured at Hondschoote in 1793, and was created Duke of Cambridge in 1801. When French and Prussian pressure made Hanover’s defence hopeless in 1803 he withdrew to England and took command of the new King’s German Legion; he became a field marshal in 1813. From 1816 to 1837 he governed Hanover for George IV and William IV, a post that ended when Victoria’s accession parted the two crowns. In 1818, after helping to find Clarence a bride, he married his second cousin Augusta of Hesse-Kassel; their granddaughter became Queen Mary. He died at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, in 1850.

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  • Adolphus Duke of Cambridge was an uncle of Queen Victoria.

One of 35 people of House of Hanover (from 1700) in this archive. Called from Germany by the Act of Settlement; the Georges, then Victoria.

Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Adolphus Duke of Cambridge.

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