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Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus FitzClarence GCH ADC (18 February 1802 – 17 May 1856) was a British Royal Navy officer and illegitimate son of Prince William, the future William IV, and his mistress Dorothea Jordan. FitzClarence joined the navy in 1813.
Há 6 dias · Lord Adolphus FitzClarence (18 February 1802 - 17 May 1856) Adolphus FitzClarence was born at Bushy House. He attended a boarding school in Sunbury-on-Thames before being sent to sea at the age of eleven in 1813. He subsequently served as a midshipman aboard Newcastle based in North America and then later in the Mediterranean Sea.
This article was written by John Knox Laughton and was published in 1889. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, rear-admiral, an illegitimate son of William IV, by Mrs. Jordan, entered the navy in 1814, on board the Impregnable, bearing the flag of his father, then Duke of Clarence.
The Right Honourable Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, born 18 Feb. 1802, is second (natural) son of His late Majesty King William IV.; uncle of the present Earl of Munster; brother of Lord Augustus FitzClarence, Rector of Maple Durham, co. Oxford; and brother-in-law of Lord De Lisle and Dudley, Lieut.-Col. Chas. Fox, of the Grenadier Guards, the ...
Adolphus FitzClarence was born at Bushy House. He attended a boarding school in Sunbury-on-Thames before being sent to sea at the age of eleven in 1813. He subsequently served as a midshipman aboard Newcastle based in North America and then later in the Mediterranean Sea.
Frederick FitzClarence (1799–1854) Elizabeth FitzClarence (1801–1856) Adolphus FitzClarence (rear admiral) (1802–1856) (no issue) Augusta FitzClarence (1803–1865) Augustus FitzClarence (1805–1854) Amelia FitzClarence (1807–1858) William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster (1824–1901) Geoffrey FitzClarence, 3rd Earl of ...
We first find this officer joining the Spartan 46, Captain William Furlong Wise, C.B. in Mar. 1818. He was made a lieutenant, April 23d, 1821; appointed to the Euryalus 42, Captain (now Sir Augustus J. W.) Clifford, C.B., Oct. 22d following ; promoted to the rank of commander, May 17th, 1823; appointed to the Brisk sloop, Dec. 26th in the same year; removed to the Redwing 18, on the 28th Feb ...
