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SCARE KEY DATE 1831 AD GREAT BRITAIN KING WILLIAM IV COPPER FARTHING VERY HIGH GRADE U MUST HAVE THIS
Obv
: Bare head of William IV right GULIELMUS IIII DEI GRATIA date 1831
Rev : Britannia seated
right on rock holding trident and resting shield against right side, floral
emblem below BRITANNIAR: REX FID: DEF:
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation:Royalty
Nationality: England Executive summary: King of England, 1830-37
Military service: British Royal Navy (1779-90)
King of England, third son of King George III,
was born at Buckingham Palace on the 21st of August 1765. In 1779 he
was sent to sea and became a midshipman under Admiral Digby. Next year
he sailed under Rodney and took part in the action off Cape St. Vincent
(16th of January 1780). During the rest of the war the young prince saw
plenty of service, for which he imbibed a strong liking, and so laid the
foundation of his popularity. On the conclusion of the war he travelled
in Germany, visiting Hanover and Berlin, where he was entertained by Frederick the Great.
In 1785 he passed for lieutenant; next year he was made captain and
stationed in the West Indies. Shortly after 1787, being tired of his
station, he sailed home without orders, and was punished for his
insubordination by being obliged to stay at Plymouth until his ship was
refitted, when he again sailed for the West Indies.
In 1789 he was made Duke of Clarence. When war was declared against the
French republic in 1793, he strongly supported it and was anxious for
active employment; but, though he was made rear-admiral of the red, he
could obtain no command. Thus condemned to inactivity, he amused or
revenged himself by joining the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York in
their opposition to the king. He threw himself into the dissipations of
society, and his hearty geniality and bluff, sailor-like manners gained
him popularity, though they did not secure him respect. He took his seat
in the House of Lords, where he defended the extravagancies of the
prince of Wales, spoke on the Divorce Bill, vehemently opposed the
emancipation of slaves and defended slavery on the ground of his
experience in the West Indies. Meanwhile he formed a connection with
Mrs. Jordan, the actress, with whom he lived on terms of mutual
affection and fidelity for nearly twenty years, and the union was only
broken off eventually for political reasons. During all this period the
prince had lived in comparative obscurity. The death of Princess
Charlotte in 1817 brought him forward as in the line of succession to
the crown. In 1818 he married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, a lady half
his age, without special attractions, but of a strong, self-willed
nature, which enabled her subsequently to obtain great influence over
her husband. On the death of the Duke of York in 1827 the Duke of
Clarence became heir to the throne, and in the same year he was
appointed lord high admiral. In discharging the functions of that office
he endeavoured to assume independent control of naval affairs, although
his patent precluded him from acting without the advice of two members
of his council. This involved him in a quarrel with Sir George Cockburn,
in which he had to give way. As he still continued to act in defiance
of rules, the king was at length obliged to call upon him to resign.
On the 28th of June 1830 the death of King George IV
placed him on the throne. During the first two years of his reign
England underwent an agitation more violent than any from which it had
suffered since 1688. William IV was well-meaning and conscientious; but
his timidity and irresolution drove ministers to despair, while his
anxiety to avoid extremes and his want of insight into affairs prolonged
a dangerous crisis and brought the country to the verge of revolution.
Immediately after his accession the revolution of July broke out in
France and gave a great impulse to the reform movement in England. The
king, though he called himself an "old Whig", did not dismiss the Tory
ministry which had governed the country during the last two years of his
brother's reign; but the elections for the new parliament placed them
in a minority. Within a fortnight of the opening of parliament they were
beaten on a motion for the reform of the civil list, and resigned. Lord
Grey undertook to form a ministry, with the avowed intention of
bringing in a large measure of reform. This was not in itself
displeasing to the king, who had liberal tendencies, and a few years
before had supported Catholic emancipation. But, when the struggle in
parliament began, his disinclination to take up a decided attitude soon
exposed the government to difficulties. The first Reform Bill was
introduced on the 1st of March 1831; the second reading was carried on
the 21st of March by a majority of one. Shortly afterwards the
government were beaten in committee, and offered to resign. The king
declined to accept their resignation, but at the same time was unwilling
to dissolve, although it was obvious that in the existing parliament a
ministry pledged to reform could not retain office. From this dilemma
William was rescued by the conduct of the opposition, which, anxious to
bring on a change of ministry, moved an address against dissolution.
Regarding this as an attack on his prerogative, William at once
dissolved parliament (April 1831). The elections gave the ministry an
overwhelming majority. The second Reform Bill was brought in in June,
and passed its third reading (21st of September) by a majority of 109. A
fortnight later (8th of October) the Lords threw out the bill by a
majority of 41. But after a protracted political crisis, the king was
compelled to consent to create a sufficient number of new peers to carry
the bill, and the threat was successful in bringing about the passing
of the act in 1832.
During the rest of his reign William IV had not much opportunity of
active political interference, but on one other occasion he made an
unjustifiable use of his prerogative. Two years after the passing of the
Reform Bill the ministry of Lord Grey had become unpopular. In July
1834 Lord Grey himself retired and Lord Melbourne took the lead. There
were divergences of opinion in the cabinet, and the king strongly
objected to the ministerial policy respecting the Irish Church. On the
shallow pretext that Lord Althorp's removal to the Upper House would
weaken the ministry in the House of Commons, where, however, they still
had a majority, he suddenly dismissed them and summoned Sir Robert Peel
(14th of November). Peel's ministry, containing many members who had
been in the government on the king's accession, was called from its
short duration "the ministry of the hundred days." Its formation clearly
indicated that the Whig proclivities of the king, which had never been
more than partial or lukewarm, had wholly disappeared. The step was
regarded with general disapprobation. It was immediately followed by a
dissolution, and the ministry soon found themselves in a minority.
Beaten on Lord John Russell's motion respecting the Irish Church (3rd of
April 1835), Peel resigned and Melbourne again came into power. Under
him the Whigs retained the lead during the remainder of the reign. This coup d'état
of November 1834 was the last occasion on which the English sovereign
has attempted to impose an unpopular ministry on the majority in
parliament.
In May 1837 the king began to show signs of debility, and died from an
affection of the heart on the 20th of June, leaving behind him the
memory of a genial, frank, warm-hearted man, but a blundering, though
well-intentioned prince. He was succeeded by his niece Queen Victoria.
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