Born St James's Palace, the second and favourite son of George III. Card gambler. Fought a duel on Wimbledon Common. Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, 1795 - 1809 and 1811 - 1827. Died, heavily in debt, at the duke of Rutland's house, Arlington Street.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Frederick, Duke of York
Commemorated ati
Duke of York's column
Bronze statue by Westmacott of "The Grand Old Duke of York" of nursery rhyme ...
Mary Anne Clarke
Mary Anne Clarke, 1776 - 1852, mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York, li...
Other Subjects
T. Ellis
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Charles de Gaulle
Born Lille, France. Height 6 ft, 5 inches, nicknamed Le Grande Asperge. President of France 1958-69. Just like Queen Wilhelmina, while in London he used the BBC to send popular messages of resistan...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, France
Battlefields Trust
Founded to preserve the battle sites of Britain. The founding motivation was the fact that the battlefield of Naseby, (a perfectly preserved site of the battle of the English Civil War), was to be ...
F. Potter
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Dame Katharine Furse
Born Katharine Symonds in Bristol. She spent most of her early life in Switzerland and Italy. She joined the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Department in 1909, and at the outbreak of WW1, she headed the f...