Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Biography
Birth: 1739
Death: Sep 17, 1767 in Monaco
Second son of Frederick (1707-1751), Prince of Wales, and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772). Younger brother of King George III. Heir-presumptive to the British throne from the death of George II in 1760 until the birth of George, Prince of Wales on 12/8-1762. Created Duke of York and Albany by his grandfather George II in 1760. He died in Monaco on Sept. 17, 1767 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in November of that year.
Also known as
- Duke of York and Albany
Life with James Boswell
Boswell met Edward Augustus, a young man just a year older than Boswell (and at the time, second in line to the throne of the United Kingdom), at the Newmarket races in 1760. He then made the faux pas of dedicating his doggerel poem The Cub at Newmarket to the Duke, without getting an official permission, and the two of them are not known to have met again.
Mentioned in
Edward Augustus is mentioned in:
- London Journal 1762-1763
