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In the first quarter of 1809, public attention was distracted from the recent British military humiliation in Spain by the scandal of the alleged involvement of the duke of York, the king’s second son and commander-in-chief of the army, in the sale of commissions by his former mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke. After an open Commons inquiry ...
Portrait of a Lady from a drawing by Adam Buck [Mary Anne Clarke at the Base of a Statue], 1803. In The Connoisseur, vol. XLI (1915), p. 180. Regency portrait painter Adam Buck completed this painting of Mary Anne Clarke, a fashionable society hostess and later mistress of the Duke of York, several years before she was at the center of a government scandal that caused a media sensation.
Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson) (1776 – 1852) From 1803 to 1809 Mary Anne Clarke was mistress to Frederick, Duke of York. Their affair turned into a political scandal when the Duke was charged with corruption for promoting officers from whom Clarke had taken bribes. Renouncing the Duke, Clarke wrote her own revealing memoirs and extracted ...
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Mary Anne Clark Obituary. With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Mary Anne Clark of Groton, South Dakota, born in Bristol, South Dakota, who passed away on April 1, 2024 at the age of 92. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Mary Anne Clark to pay them a last tribute. She was predeceased by : her parents, John ...
Mary Anne Clarke. Mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Born in Ball and Pin Alley, White's Alley, Chancery Lane as Mary Anne Thompson, she married Clarke, a stonemason who became bankrupt. She 'went bad' but managed to become a courtesan (rather than a prostitute) and thus met the Duke who in 1803 set her up in her own home where she led ...
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