Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Eifert, Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, Ernst Bogislaw von Croy, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick III of Denmark, Hanns Lilje, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Ilse Junkermann, Joachim Morlin, Johannes Friedrich (bishop), Johann Wigand, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop, Landesbischof, List of Bishops, Prince-Bishops and Administrators of Lubeck, Margot Kassmann, Maria Jepsen, Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Ralf Meister, Theophil Wurm, Wilhelm Stahlin. Excerpt: The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827) was the second eldest child, and second son, of King George III, a member of the House of Hanover and the British Royal Family. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, King George IV, both to the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hanover. He was thrust into the British army at a very young age, appointed to high command at the age of 30, and commanded in a notoriously ineffectual campaign during the War of the First Coalition, which followed the French Revolution. Later, as Commander-in-Chief, he reorganised the British army, putting in place vital administrative and structural reforms. Prince Frederick Augustus, or the Duke of York as he became in later life, belonged to the House of Hanover. He was born on 16 August 1763, at St. James's Palace, London. His father was the reigning British monarch, King George III. His mother was Queen Charlotte (nee Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz). He was christened on 14 September 1763 at St James's, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker - his godparents were his great-uncle the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (for whom the Earl Gower, Lord Chamberlain, stood proxy), his uncle the Duke of York (for whom the Earl of Huntingdon, Groom of the Stole, stood proxy) and his great-aunt the Princess Amelia. On 27 February 1764, when Prince Frederick was six months old, his father secured his election as Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck in today's Lower Saxony. He received this title because his father, as Elector of Hanover, was entitled to select every other holder of this title (in alternation with a Catholic prelate). He was invested as Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath on 30 December 1767 and as a Knight of the Order of the Garter on 19 June 1771. The Duke of York in 1790.George III decided that his second son would pursue an army career and had