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Lord Frederick FitzClarence

GCH
Lord Frederick FitzClarence; GCH
	Lord Frederick FitzClarence
Born	9 December 1799
Died	30 October 1854 (aged 54)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1814–1854
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	Bombay Army
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
Spouse(s)	Lady Augusta Boyle
Children	Augusta FitzClarence; William FitzClarence
Relations	William IV (father); Dorothea Jordan (mother)

Lieutenant-General Lord Frederick FitzClarence, GCH (9 December 1799 – 30 October 1854) was a British Army officer and the third illegitimate son of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan.

Military career

FitzClarence was commissioned as an officer in the British Army in 1814.^[1] While a captain in the Coldstream Guards, FitzClarence commanded a small detachment of Guards to act in support of the police with the arrest of the Cato Street conspirators in 1820.^[1] The arrest was not straightforward, and a scuffle ensued.^[2]

Frederick FitzClarence gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot.^[1] On 24 May 1831, he was granted the rank of a marquess' younger son by his father, William IV, upon the latter's ascension to the throne.^[1] Having been invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (G.C.H.) that same year, he became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in 1847,^[3] and then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1852.^[4] He died in office in October 1854.^[1]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Lord Frederick FitzClarence were the royal arms of King William IV (without the escutcheon of the Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and without the Crown of Hanover) debruised by a baton sinister (azure(?)) charged with two anchors (or(?)).^[5]

Family

On 19 May 1821, he married Lady Augusta Boyle (d. 28 July 1876), the eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Glasgow. They had two children:

Augusta Georgiana Frederica FitzClarence (December 1823 – 18 September 1855)
William FitzClarence (b. & d. 1827)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Lord Frederick FitzClarence

16. George II of Great Britain

8. Frederick, Prince of Wales

17. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach

4. George III of the United Kingdom

18. Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

9. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

19. Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst

2. William IV of the United Kingdom

20. Adolf Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

10. Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg

21. Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

5. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

22. Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

11. Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen

23. Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach

1. Lord Frederick FitzClarence

24. James Bland

12. Nathaniel Bland

25. Lucy Brewster

6. Francis Bland

13. Elizabeth Heaton

3. Dorothy Jordan

7. Grace Phillips

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lord Frederick FitzClarence obituary The Gentleman's Magazine, 1855, p.304
^ Morning Chronicle, Thursday, 24 February 1820, as replicated on A Web of English History
^ "Final resting place for two horses". The News. Portsmouth. 21 April 2013. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
^ The India List and India Office List
^ Compare with arms of his elder brother the 1st Earl of Munster, as given in Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.813, only the charges on the baton sinister differ, for heraldic difference

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Hercules Pakenham	GOC South-West District 1847–1851	Succeeded by Sir George D'Aguilar
Preceded by Sir John Grey	C-in-C, Bombay Army 1852–1854	Succeeded by Sir Henry Somerset
Preceded by Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, Bt	Colonel of the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot 1851–1854	Succeeded by William Henry Scott
Masonic offices
Preceded by The Earl of Rothes	Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1841–1843	Succeeded by Lord Glenlyon
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Munster	Lieutenant of the Tower of London 1833	Succeeded by John Sulivan Wood