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CORNWALL 449 Hanover. He appears, after the accession of his grandfather, in 17 14, to the throne, to have been known as DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, and certainly received, 10 Jan. 1717/8, a royal warrant for being so created. Nom. K.G. 3 July, and inv. 24 Dec. 17 16 at Hanover, being installed (by proxy) '50 Apr. 171 8. On 26 July 1726 he was cr. (by his grand- father) BARON OF SNAUDON(^) [Snowdon], co. Carnarvon, VIS- COUNT OF LAUNCESTON, Cornwall, EARL OF ELTHAM Kent, MARQUESS OF THE ISLE OF ELY, and DUKE OF EDEN- BURGH. (^) On II June 1727, by the accession of his father to the throne as George II, he became Duke of Cornwall, as also Duke of RoTHSAY, i^c. [S.]. F.R.S. 1 7 Dec. 1727. P.C. 18 Dec. 1728. On 8 Jan. 1728/9, he was cr. PRINCE OF WALES and EARL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs, Kings of Great Britain. He m., 27 Apr. 1 736, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, Augusta, yst. da. of Friedrich II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, by Magdalene Augusta, da. of Karl Wilhelm, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.() He ^. v.p.,{) at Leicester HousCjC^) St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 2o,and was l?ur. privately, 23 Mar. 1 750/1, inWestm. Abbey, aged 44.() The Principality of Wales, the Dukedom of Cornwall, and the Earldom of Chester, as also the Dukedom of Rothsay,(*) fsfc. [S.], (') So spelt. (*") They were (as had happened in the preceding reign), on 10 Sep. 1737, expelled by an order signed by the King (with whom the Prince, his son, was on the worst possible terms) from St. James's Palace, all persons who visited them being prohibited from attending court. ('^) "He [Frederick] is reported to have selected Edward, the Black Prince, as his model; but, as Horace Walpole sarcastically observes, he resembled him in no other point than in dying before his father." (Jesse, Court of Hanover, vol. iii). C) This house is happily called by Pennant "the pouting place of Princes," for it was here that George II likewise, when, in I 7 1 8, A*" was expelled from court by his father, made his London residence. (') The epitaph on him quoted by Thackeray in his Four Georges, is of course widely known, but far less widely that it is a mere rechauffe of, and "crib" from one quoted in a letter dated 9 July 1 667 {Hht. MSS. Com., Egmont MSS., vol. v, p. I 8), and therein stated to have been composed on a son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, although that Lord never had a son Thomas. "Here lies Tom Hyde It's pity that he died; We had rather It had been his father; Had it been his sister We had not missed her; If the whole generation It had been better for the nation." V.G. "Upon the death of this Prince it was considered that the tides of Duke of Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, &c., had reverted to the Crown, as the Dukedom of Corn- wall undoubtedly did. It was the opinion of the Judge Advocate [S.] that these dignities had been setded upon the plan of the Act of 1 1 Edw. Ill, by which the 57