[487] Charles, second Viscount Townshend, K.G., married Dorothy, sister of Sir Robert Walpole. Townshend was President of the Council 1720, and afterwards Secretary of State. There was jealousy between the brothers-in-law, and Horace Walpole sarcastically observed that things went well or ill according as the style of the firm was Townshend and Walpole or Walpole and Townshend.
[488] Henry Francis, fourteenth Baron Teynham (1768–1842).
[489] At the festival of the 14th July, 1790, held in the Champ de Mars he officiated at the altar. It was his last celebration of the Mass.
[490] Prince George of Cambridge.
[491] Sixth son of Lord Anglesey. He was second in command, to Lord Cardigan, of the Light Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea; he subsequently became Inspector of Cavalry, and later M.P. for Beaumaris.
[492] Eldest son of the fifth Earl de la Warr. See ante, p. 60.
[493] Afterwards sixth Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G., and A.D.C. to the Queen.
[494] She was younger daughter of the second Earl Talbot, and wife of the seventh Marquess of Lothian.
[495] Prince George, born 1819, succeeded his father on the throne of Hanover in 1851. He ultimately suffered from total blindness, caused by swinging a bunch of keys attached to a chain, that struck accidentally one of his eyes. He sided with Austria in 1866 against Prussia, and after Sadowa his kingdom was annexed to Prussia by decree. King George was a Knight of the Garter and Duke of Cumberland. He was a Prince of amiable disposition and simple manners. At his death he was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son, who married the younger sister of Queen Alexandra.
[496] According to the Royal Marriages Act, none of the Royal Family can marry without the Sovereign’s consent. See post, p. 390.