1738 - 1820
King George III was born in London on June 4, 1738. He was
the son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the grandson of George II. He
succeeded his grandfather in 1760, his father having died in 1751. George III
was the first of the House of Hanover to be born and educated as an Englishman.
He had high but impractical ideas of kingship. George III was the longest
reigning of the male British monarchs. George III was king of Great
Britain and Ireland and presided over the loss of the American colonies.
Although
never an autocratic monarch, George III was always a powerful force in
politics. He was a strong supporter of the war against America, and he viewed
the concession of independence in 1783 with such detestation that he considered
abdicating his throne. At the same time he fought a bitter personal feud with
the Whig leader Charles James Fox, and his personal intervention brought the
fall of the Fox-North ministry in 1783. He then took a political gamble by
placing the government in the hands of William Pitt, thereby restoring
stability for the rest of the century. In 1801 he preferred, however, to
force Pitt to resign as prime minister rather than permit Catholic
Emancipation, a measure that he interpreted as contrary to his coronation oath
to uphold the Church of England.
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After
1801 George III was increasingly incapacitated by an illness, sometimes identified
as porphyry, that caused blindness and senility. His recurring bouts of
insanity became a political problem and ultimately compelled him to submit to
the establishment of a formal Regency in1811. The regent was his oldest son,
the future George IV, one of 15 children borne him by his wife, Charlotte
Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
George
III was bitterly criticized by Whig historians of his own and later days. He
learned quickly, however, and developed into a shrewd and sensible statesman,
although one of conservative views. The best loved of the rulers of the
House of Hanover, he enjoyed a personal reputation that stood his house in good
stead during the disastrous reign of his son George.
George
III died at Windsor Castle on January 29, 1820.
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George III was born on 4 June 1738 in London, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760. He was the third Hanoverian monarch and the first one to be born in England and to use English as his first language.
George III is widely remembered for two things:
losing the American colonies and going mad. This is far from the whole truth.
George's direct responsibility for the loss of the colonies is not great. He
opposed their bid for independence to the end, but he did not develop the
policies (such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend duties of 1767 on
tea, paper and other products) which led to war in 1775-76 and which had the
support of Parliament. These policies were largely due to the financial burdens
of garrisoning and administering the vast expansion of territory brought under
the British Crown in America, the costs of a series of wars with France and
Spain in North America, and the loans given to the East India Company (then
responsible for administering India). By the 1770s, and at a time when there
was no income tax, the national debt required an annual revenue of £4 million
to service it.
The declaration of American independence on 4 July
1776, the end of the war with the surrender by British forces in 1782, and the
defeat which the loss of the American colonies represented, could have
threatened the Hanoverian throne. However, George's strong defence of what he
saw as the national interest and the prospect of long war with revolutionary
France made him, if anything, more popular than before.
The American war, its political aftermath and family
anxieties placed great strain on George in the 1780s. After serious bouts of
illness in 1788-89 and again in 1801, George became permanently deranged in
1810. He was mentally unfit to rule in the last decade of his reign; his eldest
son - the later George IV - acted as Prince Regent from 1811. Some medical
historians have said that George III's mental instability was caused by a
hereditary physical disorder called porphyria.
George's accession in 1760 marked a significant
change in royal finances. Since 1697, the monarch had received an annual grant
of £700,000 from Parliament as a contribution to the Civil List, i.e. civil
government costs (such as judges' and ambassadors' salaries) and the expenses
of the Royal Household. In 1760, it was decided that the whole cost of the
Civil List should be provided by Parliament in return for the surrender of the
hereditary revenues by the King for the duration of his reign. (This
arrangement still applies today, although civil government costs are now paid
by Parliament, rather than financed directly by the monarch from the Civil List.)
The first 25 years of George's reign were
politically controversial for reasons other than the conflict with America. The
King was accused by some critics, particularly Whigs (a leading political
grouping), of attempting to reassert royal authority in an unconstitutional
manner. In fact, George took a conventional view of the constitution and the
powers left to the Crown after the conflicts between Crown and Parliament in
the 17th century.
Although he was careful not to exceed his powers,
George's limited ability and lack of subtlety in dealing with the shifting
alliances within the Tory and Whig political groupings in Parliament meant that
he found it difficult to bring together ministries which could enjoy the
support of the House of Commons. His problem was solved first by the
long-lasting ministry of Lord North (1770-82) and then, from 1783, by Pitt the
Younger, whose ministry lasted until 1801.
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George III was the most attractive of the Hanoverian
monarchs. He was a good family man (there were 15 children) and devoted to his
wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, for whom he bought the Queen's House
(later enlarged to become Buckingham Palace). However, his sons disappointed
him and, after his brothers made unsuitable secret marriages, the Royal Marriages
Act of 1772 was passed at George's insistence. (Under this Act, the Sovereign
must give consent to the marriage of any lineal descendant of George II, with
certain exceptions.)
Being extremely conscientious, George read all
government papers and sometimes annoyed his ministers by taking such a
prominent interest in government and policy. His political influence could be
decisive. In 1801, he forced Pitt the Younger to resign when the two men
disagreed about whether Roman Catholics should have full civil rights. George
III, because of his coronation oath to maintain the rights and privileges of
the Church of England, was against the proposed measure.
Queen Charlotte: Revolutionary War date autograph letter signed by Queen Charlotte to her brother written in French on the 19th of February 1779: “Sir my brother. It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Your Majesty on the Birth of the Princess, that Riene your very lovely wife comes by the assistance of Divine Providence to put the World, and I share with Your Majesty the joy that this event causes you begging the Quite Powerful that it of a agene from days to days to fill the royal house with all kinds of Benedictions. With my perfect sincerity. Sir my brother, Your good sister, Charlotte. At St. James, 19th February 1779.” |
One of the most cultured of monarchs, George started
a new royal collection of books (65,000 of his books were later given to the
British Museum, as the nucleus of a national library) and opened his library to
scholars. In 1768, George founded and paid the initial costs of the Royal
Academy of Arts (now famous for its exhibitions). He was the first king to study
science as part of his education (he had his own astronomical observatory), and
examples of his collection of scientific instruments can now be seen in the
Science Museum.
George III also took a keen interest in agriculture,
particularly on the crown estates at Richmond and Windsor, being known as
'Farmer George'. In his last years, physical as well as mental powers deserted
him and he became blind. He died at Windsor Castle on 29 January 1820, after a
reign of almost 60 years - the second longest in British history.
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