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Charles, Count Alten [videos]

Field Marshal Sir Charles Alten, Hanoverian and British soldier, He led the famous Light Division during the last two years of the Peninsular War. At the Battle of Waterloo, he commanded a division in the front line, where he was wounded. He …

Alten as Minister of War

Statue in Hannover, Germany (Sculptor: Heinrich Kümmel).

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey [videos]

Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a Member of Parliament for Carnarvon and then for …

The Marquess of Anglesey at Waterloo, by Jan Willem Pieneman.

The Marquess of Anglesey by George Dawe

The Marquess of Anglesey's Column at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

The Marquess of Anglesey by Henry Edridge.

Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet [videos]

Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet GCH was a career soldier in the British Army. Asgill enjoyed a long military career, eventually rising to the rank of general. He is best remembered as the principal of the so-called "Asgill Affair" of 1782, in which his retaliatory …

Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet - Colourisation of a 19th-century mezzotint by Charles Turner (engraver) following an 1822 portrait by Thomas Phillips RA

Colourisation of a 19th-century mezzotint by Charles Turner (engraver) following an 1822 portrait by Thomas Phillips RA

Cornwallis's surrender in October 1781 following the siege of Yorktown, after which Asgill became an American prisoner of war.

Original French engraving by Juste Chevillet, published in 1784.

Image: Charles Asgill autograph book 1778

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford [videos]

General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside The Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War …

Lord Beresford by Sir William Beechey

William Carr Beresford surrenders to Santiago de Liniers during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.

Field-marshal Beresford – Coudelaria de Alter, Portugal

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was the last titular Governor of Jersey

George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley [videos]

George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley, styled Viscount Malpas between 1764 and 1770 and known as The Earl of Cholmondeley between 1770 and 1815, was a British peer and politician. — Background and education — Cholmondeley was the son of George …

The Marquess of Cholmondeley by Pompeo Batoni, 1772, Houghton Hall, Norfolk.

Lady Cholmondeley and her son William Henry Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley (1805), by Charles Turner.

Cholmondeley Castle

Cholmondeley's listing in the family vault at St Oswald's Church, Malpas

Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover [videos]

Ernest Augustus, known for most of his adult life as the Duke of Cumberland, was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death. He was the fifth son and eighth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover. As a fifth son …

Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover - Political cartoon supporting the Reform Act; King William sits above the clouds, surrounded by Whig politicians, below Britannia and the British Lion cause the Tories (Ernest, second from left) to flee.

The young Ernest Augustus by Thomas Gainsborough, 1782

Political cartoon supporting the Reform Act; King William sits above the clouds, surrounded by Whig politicians, below Britannia and the British Lion cause the Tories (Ernest, second from left) to flee.

1849 five-thaler coin depicting King Ernest Augustus

Ernest Augustus portrait, circa 1850

Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover [videos]

Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernst August was deprived of the …

King George V and Queen Marie of Hanover and their children Ernest Augustus, Frederica and Marie.

The young crown prince with his father in the 1860s in "Linden-Hannover"

Schloss Cumberland in Gmunden, Austria, built in 1882 as exile seat for Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

Ernest Augustus with family, photographed by Karl Jagerspacher, 1887

Royal Guelphic Order [videos]

The Royal Guelphic Order, sometimes also referred to as the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, is a Hanoverian order of chivalry instituted on 28 April 1815 by the Prince Regent. It takes its name from the House of Guelph, of whom of the Hanoverians were a …

Grand cross and sash of the Royal Guelphic Order

Badge of the Royal Guelphic Order

Grave of Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Poten (1785–1838) of the Royal Hanoverian Army. The inscription lists the Royal Guelphic Order among other awards and honours.

Lord Amelius Beauclerk [videos]

Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk was a Royal Navy officer. — Early life — Beauclerk was born on 23 May 1771, the third son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans and his wife, the former Lady Catherine Ponsonby, daughter of William …

Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, 1771–1846, by C J Robertson, engraved by S Watts

Ça Ira

Image: HMS Dryad vs Proserpine

Thomas Brisbane [videos]

Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer, administrator, and astronomer. Upon the recommendation of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had served, he was appointed governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. A keen …

Remains of observatory in Parramatta Park, Parramatta, N.S.W.

The Brisbane family vault in Largs

Image: Thomasbrisbane

Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos [videos]

Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, styled Viscount Cobham from birth until 1813, Earl Temple between 1813 and 1822 and Marquess of Chandos between 1822 and 1839, was a British Tory politician. He …

The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos by John Jackson.

The Grenville Armorial produced between 1822 and 1839 for Richard Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos, the son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The centrepiece of the Gothic Library at Stowe House, it shows 719 quarterings of the family.

Image: 2nd Duke Of Buckingham And Chandos

Rufane Shaw Donkin [videos]

Lieutenant General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, was a British army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament. — Background — Rufane Donkin came of a military family and was the eldest child of General Robert Donkin, who had served with many famous British …

The Donkin Memorial, Donkin Reserve, Port Elizabeth.

Donkin's name listed on the south face of the Burdett Coutts memorial

Rufane Shaw Donkin

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany [videos]

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück …

The Duke of York, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in the uniform of a Field-Marshal, with the mantle of the Order of the Garter, holding his Marshal's baton in his left hand.

"The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat", caricature of Frederick's lover, Mary Anne Clarke by Isaac Cruikshank, 15 March 1809. The prince resigned as head of the British army ten days after the caricature's publication.

Statue of Frederick Duke of York in Waterloo Place, Westminster, London

William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst [videos]

William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, GCH, PC was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General of India between 1823 and 1828. — Background and education — Born at Bath, Somerset, Amherst was the son of William Amherst and Elizabeth …

Image: Earl Amherst

Image: Sir Thomas Lawrence Lord Amherst Google Art Project

Andrew Barnard [videos]

General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard was an Irish British Army officer. He served in various capacities in the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, the Netherlands, Sicily, Spain and in the Napoleonic Wars including the Battle of Waterloo for which service he was …

Portrait of Sir Andrew Bernard by William Salter, showing him ready for the 1836 Waterloo banquet

Andrew Barnard by George Jones

Henry Blackwood [videos]

Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB, whose memorial is in Killyleagh Parish Church, was a British sailor. — Early life — Blackwood was the fourth son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, of Ballyleidy, County …

Sir Henry Blackwood

His Majesty's Ship Brilliant, of 28 guns: Engaging and Beating off Two Republican Frigates

Edward Blakeney [videos]

Field Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer with the expedition to Dutch Guiana and being taken prisoner by privateers three times suffering great hardship, he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in …

The Battle of Nivelle: Blakeney commanded the 7th Regiment of Foot at this battle in November 1813

Sir Edward Blakeney

John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow [videos]

John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH was a British Peer and Tory politician. — Life — Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge before undertaking a …

John Cust's funerary monument in Belton Church, Lincolnshire

Belton House

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh [videos]

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, usually known as Lord Castlereagh, which is derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish/British statesman. As British Foreign Secretary …

Marble bust of Castlereagh by Joseph Nollekens, 1821. Yale Center for British Art

Image: Lord Castlereagh Marquess of Londonderry

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere [videos]

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in …

Statue of Lord Combermere outside Chester Castle, Cheshire

Image: Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere by Mary Martha Pearson (née Dutton)

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham [videos]

General Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham, KP, GCH, PC, styled Lord Francis Conyngham between 1816 and 1824 and Earl of Mount Charles between 1824 and 1832, was a British soldier, courtier, politician and absentee landlord. — Background and education …

Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham - Queen Victoria receives the news of her accession from Lord Conyngham (left) and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Queen Victoria receives the news of her accession from Lord Conyngham (left) and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Image: Lord Conyam

Astley Cooper [videos]

Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. — Life …

Astley Cooper by Thomas Lawrence

Astley Paston Cooper

Charles William Doyle [videos]

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Doyle, CB, GCH was a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars. — Biography — Doyle was born in 1770, the eldest son of William Doyle of Bramblestown, County Kilkenny, KC and master in chancery in Ireland. William …

Doyle's tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery

Painting of Sir Charles by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1824

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar [videos]

Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was a British military officer of German parents. After a career in the Grenadier Guards, he became Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding the Home District in 1870 …

Prince Edward in 1855

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar as depicted in Vanity Fair

Lord Frederick FitzClarence [videos]

Lieutenant-General Lord Frederick FitzClarence, GCH was a British Army officer as well as being the illegitimate third son of King William IV and his mistress, Dorothea Jordan. — Military career — FitzClarence was commissioned as an officer in the British Army …

Lord Frederick FitzClarence

Bookplate showing the coat of arms of Lord Frederick FitzClarence. The bookplate reads, "This belonged to my Father when Duke of Clarence and was left to me by the Will of Queen Adelaide"

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria [videos]

Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg. He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria – …

Franz Karl at age 37, 1839

Franz Karl at age 75, 1878

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge [videos]

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, was the tenth child and seventh son of the British king George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 1801 until his death. He also served as Viceroy of Hanover …

Image: Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge

William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle [videos]

William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle, GCH, PC, briefly styled Viscount Bury between May and October 1772, was a British Whig politician. — Background — Albemarle was the only child of General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle, and Anne, daughter of Sir …

William Keppel (Martin Archer Shee)

George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll [videos]

George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll GCH, PC, styled Earl of Campbell from 1768 to 1770 and Marquess of Lorne from 1770 to 1806, was a Scottish Whig politician and nobleman. — Background — Argyll was the eldest son of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll …

Arms of the Dukes of Argyll

George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham [videos]

George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA was a British peer. — He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham and the former Elizabeth Crowley, being styled Viscount St Asaph from birth, and was baptised on 29 January 1761 at St George's, Hanover …

Shield of arms of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA

Lord William Bentinck [videos]

Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman. He served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835. He has been credited for significant social and educational reforms in India …

Memorial at the Bentinck family vault in St Marylebone Parish Church, London

Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield [videos]

Lieutenant General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield was a British Army officer who saw action at the Battle of Vinegar Hill in June 1798 during the Irish Rebellion. He was Member of Parliament for Plymouth from 1812 from 1818 and served as Private …

Image: Lord Benjamin Bloomfield

Thomas Bradford [videos]

Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Bradford was a British Army officer. — Military career — Bradford was commissioned as an ensign in the 4th Regiment of Foot in October 1793 without purchase He took part in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion …

Sir Thomas Bradford

Heinrich von Bülow (diplomat) [videos]

Heinrich Freiherr von Bülow was a Prussian statesman. — Bülow, born to members of the noble Bülow family, was educated at the Domschule Güstrow, then studied Law from 1810 onwards, at first in Jena, then in Heidelberg and Geneva. In 1813 …

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Saturnino Calderón de la Barca y Collantes [videos]

Saturnino Calderón de la Barca y Collantes was a Spanish noble and politician who served as Minister of State from 1858 to 1863, during the reign of Queen Isabella II of Spain and in a cabinet headed by Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan. — Biography — He was born at Reinosa …

Saturnino Calderón de la Barca

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