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| Lot # 303 KING WILLIAM IV - FREE FRANK SIGNED 06/27/1828 - Document 47607 |
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KING WILLIAM IV. Free Franc signed as Duke
of Clarence: "Clarence", 4¼x3 front of envelope affixed to 4¾x3½
card. Addressed in signer's hand: "London. June twenty
seventh/1828/The Lord Byron/Post Office/Brighton". WILLIAM was the
third son of King George III. He was created Duke of Clarence in
1789 and sat in the House of Lords, where he opposed the emancipation
of slaves. William became heir to the throne and Lord High Admiral in 1827
when his older brother Prince Frederick, Duke of York, died. When his
eldest brother King George IV died in 1830, he succeeded him as King William
IV. William was the last British sovereign to attempt to force a ministry
(Sir Robert Peel, 1834) upon an unwilling majority in Parliament. William and
his Queen Adelaide had no surviving children. When he died in 1837, he was
succeeded by Victoria, the daughter of his younger brother Edward Duke of Kent,
who had died in 1820. The addressee was not the famous romantic poet George
Gordon Lord Byron, the sixth to hold that title, who had died in 1824.
Rather it was to his cousin and successor, George Anson, the seventh Lord
Byron (1789-1868), a naval officer who commanded H.M.S. Blonde on its
voyage to the Hawaiian Island (1824-1825), returning the bodies of King
Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu. The Hawaiian royals had died of measles
while visiting England (1824). Remnant of an earlier mounting shows through,
touching tail of "C" in "Clarence". Otherwise, fine condition.
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