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GLOUCESTER — GODERICH. 47 1765. P.O., 1764. lie was Major Gen. in the army, 1767, becoming finally, 1793, Field Marshal, and being Col. o£ the 13th Foot, 1766, of the 3d Foot Guards, 1768, and of the 1st Foot Guards, 1770. Ranger of Hampton Court, 1763 ; Keeper of Windsor Forest, 1767 ; Warden of the New Forest, 1771 ; Chancellor of the Univ. of Dublin, 1771 ; F.R.S., 1780 ; LL.D. of Cambridge, 1787, &c. He m., 6 Sep. 1766,(0 at her house in Pall Mall (her Chaplain being the oflie. minister), Maiia, Dow. Countess WaLDBOEAVB, illegit. da. of the Hon. Sir Edward Walfole, KB., by Dorothy Clements. He d. 25 Aug. 1805, aged 61, at Gloucester House, Grosvenor street, Midx., and was bur. 4 Sep. at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Will pr. 1805. His widow, who was 4. 10 July 1736, at St. James' Westm., d. 22 Aug. 1807, at Brompton, Midx., and was bur. at St. George's afsd. Will pr. 1807. VI. 1805, 2. II.R.H.{ h ) William Frederick, Duke of Glouces- to ter and Edinburgh [G.B.], and Earl of Connauqht [I.], only s. 1834. and h., !>. 15 Jan. 177G, at the Teodoli Palace, Rome, and hap. there, 12 Feb., styled Prince William of Gloucester, 1776—1805 ; ed. atTrh}. Coll., Cambridge; M.A., 1790; cr. LL.D. 1796; entered the Army in 1789, serving in Flanders, 1794-99 ; becoming eventually, 1816, Field Marshal ; Col. of the 6th Foot, 1795, and of the 3d Foot Guards, 1806 ; el. KG, 16 July 1794 (the ensigns being delivered to him in Flanders), and iust. 29 May 1801 ; F.R.S., 1797; Ranger of Bagshot Walk, 1798; sue. his father in the peerage, 25 Aug. 1805; P.C., 1806; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1811, G.O.B., 12 April 1815 ; G.C.H., 12 Aug. 1815 ; Guv. of Portsmouth, 1827, &c. He m. 22 July 1816 ;( c ) at the Queen Palace, Buckingham House, St. James' Tark (his first cousin), II. R.I I. the Princess Mary, 4th da. of King George III., by Charlotte Sophia, da. of Charles Louis. Duke ok Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He d. s.p. at Bagshot Park, 30 Nov. 1834, aged 57, when all Ids honour* became extinct. He was bur. privately at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Will pr. Feb. 1835. His widow "the Princess Mary," who was 4. 25 April 1776, at the Queen's Palace afsd., and was bap. 10 May in the great Council Chamber, and reg. at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, was made Ringer of Richmond Park, 1S50, and d. 30 April 1S57, aged SI, at Gloucester House. Piccadilly, Midx., being the last surviving of the 15 children of King George III. She was bur. privately in St. George's Chapel afsd. Will pr. June 1857. . GLYXDE. See "Hampden of Glynde, co. Sussex," Barony (Brand), cr. 1884. GLYNN. Sec " Vivian of Glynn and of Truro, co. Cornwall, Barony Vivian), cr. 1842. GODEKICH, or GODRICKE, CASTLE. Sec "Talbot" Barony (Talbot), cr. 1331 (the 4th Baron being sum. from 1387 to 1383 by writ as " Talbot dc Oodrickc Caslcll ") in abeyance 1777. GODERICH. i.e., " Goderich, co. Hereford," Viscountcy (Grey), cr. 1706 with the Marquessate of Kent, which see ; ex. 1740. f «) The Royal Marriage Act of 1772 was occasioned by this and a somewhat similar marriage (2 Oct. 1771), by his younger brother. See vol. ii, p. 441, note " d," sub " Cumberland." ( b ) The style of " Royal Highness " was not, however, allowed to him till 22 July 1816, he being (tho' nephew and son-in-law of the then King) only jrrcai-graudsou (not grandson) of a King of Eugland. (°) They were then each of them aged 40. It had apparently been the policy to keep the Duke single so that he could " marry the presumptive heiress of the throne [the Princess Charlotte of Wales who married about 10 weeks earlier] in case of no eligible foreign prince appearing." See Ann. Reg. for 1857 iu the obituary notice of tho Princess Mary.