George the Guelph:
the Turnip Head
the Turnip-Hoer.
the Turnip-Hoer.
the Builder of Churches:
George II of Great Britain.
Augustus:
George II of Serbia
Maximus:
Ralph Robinson (pseudonym):
Another Philip the Second:
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| George III & Charlotte Farmer George @hrp.org.uk |
"Later in his life George exchanged ideas with the greatest botanists, horticulturalists and explorers and encouraged their innovations. Agricultural developments as momentous as the industrial revolution particularly interested the King and earned him the nickname 'Farmer George'." (Kew Palace)
"George was a man of wide interests and intellect. He became fascinated in agriculture and botany, giving some of the land at Windsor over to farming, hence his nickname of 'Farmer George'. It was an appropriate epithet since th ename George means 'farmer' or 'landworker', so George genuinely lived up (or down) to his name.. He wrote pamphlets on agriculture under the pseudonym of Ralph Robinson. . . ." (Ashley. A Brief History of British Kings & Queens)
"His most famous nickname 'Farner George' was a result of his interest in agriculture. From time to time he sent letters on the subject to the 'Annals under the pseudonym of Ralph Robinson. He regularly sent produce from the farm at Great Park, Windsor, to market and sold it at a profit, a practice not calculated to make him popular among his fellow-farmers." (Van der Kiste. George III's Children)
"George III. was called Farmer George, because he liked a peaceful country life, and would have been a very good farmer, although he was not a very wise King. He had reigned sixty years, including the last ten, during which he did not really rule." (A Celebration of Women Writers)
the Farmer:
the Farmer King:the Solomon of Great Britain:
Bauernjorg (Peasants' Georgy): " . . . During the winter of that year, King Ferdinand, the Emperor's brother, who in his absence was regent of the Empire, appointed as general of the Swabian league against the peasants, Truchsess George of Waldburg, or, as the peasants called him, Bauernjorg (peasants' Georgy). He was a scion of that Swabian house whose ancestor accompanied the last Hohenstaufen to the scaffold, and who there received from the hands of the unfortunate Conradin his gauntlet and his signet, to take it to Peter of Aragon; in memory of which event, the Waldburgs to this day quarter the three Hohenstaufen lions with their own arms. Truchsess was ordered to arrest the rebel peasants, and t question them on the rack as to who were their leaders; after which all should be slain who could be got hold of, their lands devastated, their houses burnt, and their wives and children expelled without any forbearance or mercy." (Vehse. Memoirs of the Court, Aristocracy, and Diplomacy of Austria, Vol 1: 79)
born George Augustus of Great Britain
George Augustus Frederick of St. James's
Florizel: "the name assumed by George IV in his correspondence with Mrs. Robinson (actress and poetess), generally known s Perdita, that being the character in which she first attracted his attention when prince of Wales." (Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume II: 32)
Fum: "The Chinese fum is a mixture of goose, stag, and snake, with the beak of a cock; a combination of folly, cowardice, malice and conceit."
Prince Florizel:
Prinny
the Adonis of Fifty: James Henry Leigh Hunt, "poet, essayist and critic . . . joined his brother John in editing first the Sunday News, 1805, and then the Examiner, 1808. They were condemned to pay a fine, each of 500 pounds, and to be imprisoned for two years, 1812-14, for a satirical article, in which the prince regent was called an 'Adonis of fifty.'. . . ." (Wheeler: 180)
the Dandy Prince
the Fat Adonis of Fifty
the Fat Adonis of Forty
the First Gentleman in Europe: "George IV was called 'the first gentleman in Europe,' because he was handsome, and had fine manners, very different from those of his homely father. He tried to make friends with all his people through his fine manners. . . ." (Marshall: An Island Story: 585)
the Greatest Prince in Christendom
the Mere Dandini
the Premier Blackguard of Europe
the Fat Adonis of Fifty
the Fat Adonis of Forty
the First Gentleman in Europe: "George IV was called 'the first gentleman in Europe,' because he was handsome, and had fine manners, very different from those of his homely father. He tried to make friends with all his people through his fine manners. . . ." (Marshall: An Island Story: 585)
the Greatest Prince in Christendom
the Mere Dandini
the Premier Blackguard of Europe
the Prince of Pleasure:
the Prince of Whales: "In later life, the Prince's other great vice, gluttony, caught up with him: the nine-course meals that could last four or five hours, plus his heavy drinking, led him to becoming so gross that he needed a hoist to mount his horse. Not for nothing was he dubbed the 'Prince of Whales.'" (Brighton Crime and Vice, 1800-2000: 79)
George V of the United Kingdom.
Grandpa England (by Elizabeth II):
My Dear Bertie:
Prince Bertie:
the Industrial Prince:
Est-il-Possible?:
born George Edward Alexander Edmund George of Great Britain, the Duke of Kent
the Hussite King:
George of York.
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| George Cornwallis-West the Handsomest Man in England @Wikipedia |
the Handsomest Man in England:"After John’s death in 1895, Jennie married George Cornwallis-West in 1900, called 'the handsomest man in England’, a Guards officer who was only two weeks older than Winston, then divorced him eleven years later. . . ." (Wikitree)
the Fairy Earl:
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale.
Lord Byron:
Lord Byron:
Britain's First International Celebrity:
Mad, bad and dangerous to know (by Caroline Lamb):
Black George:
--" . . . The nickname the soldiers under his command gave him was 'Black George'."
--" . . . 'Black George,' so tagged because of his swarthy skin, had never tried to direct events. . . ." (Ingle: 181) [Ref1]
Honest George: "During these transactions, general Monck was at the head of eight thousand veterans in Scotland, and beheld the distraction of his native country with but slender hopes of relieving it. This personage, to whom the nation owes such signal obligations, was at first a soldier of fortune. After some time spent abroad, he was entrusted with a regiment in the service of king Charles, and was usually called by the soldiery, for his good-nature, honest George Monck. . . ." (Goldsmith: 32) [Ref1]
Honest George Monck: " . . . The love which the seamen had for him, had as great an influence on board the fleet, as his personal bravery. They frequently called him, 'honest George Monck.'. . . ." (Granger: 276)
the Father of the Colonies:
the Fighting Fitzgerald
"George Robert Fitzgerald, commonly known as "Fighting Fitzgerald," from the number of duels in which he took part, was a man of good family, noted alike for his gallantry and recklessness. A fracas which was the result of his distasteful attentions to Mrs. Hartley, a well-known actress, had made him notorious in 1773, some years previous to his introduction to Mrs. Robinson. His life, which was one of singular adventure, ended on the scaffold, he being executed for murder in 1786.–ED" (Memoirs of Mary Robinson @A Celebration of Women Writers)
" . . . Fighting a few duels became considered a mark of manhood, but the only thing worse for a man’s reputation than refusing to fight a duel was fighting too many duels. And in the ranks of those who went out actively seeking an excuse to put their life (and the life of their opponent) on the line, none stood higher than George Robert, the “Fighting Fitzgerald”." (George Robert Fitzgerald -- "The Fighting Fitzgerald" @Headstuff)
George Saville, Marquess of Halifax.
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| George Spencer-Churchill 8th Duke of Marlborough the Wicked Duke @Blenheim Palace |
the Greatest Blackguard Alive (by Prince of Wales)
"The uproar was over Randolph’s brother the Marquess of Blandford‘s affair with Edith, Countess of Aylesford, wife of the 7th Earl of Aylesford, aka “Sporting Joe.” It would appear Lady Edith was equally sporting. She wished to divorce the Earl and elope with Blandford, with whom she had conducted a torrid love affair. Hearing of this, HRH the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) condemned Blandford as “the greatest blackguard alive.” Springing to his brother’s defense, Randolph threatened to reveal HRH’s own indiscretions with Lady Edith, whereupon HRH said he would appear in no place where Lord Randolph was present–effectively ostracizing Winston Churchill’s parents from London Society." (Lord Randolph and the Aylesford Sports @richardlangworth.com)
the Wicked Duke.
"The collection remained intact until the advent of the 8th Duke of Marlborough, known as 'The Wicked Duke', so called not because of his actual history of extra-curricular marital activities, but because his passion for science and orchids lead him to sell off portions of the Blenheim collection. It’s fascinating that he earned this sobriquet, when his three most recent ducal predecessors made hay with the family fortune by living lives of indulgence and profligacy. But they didn’t sell anything!!!" (Entertablement Abroad – Blenheim Palace Part II @entertablement.com)
"Unfortunately, Marlborough was a man with a clouded history. Divorced by his first wife in an era when divorces were rarely heard of, and featured as the most celebrated of several co-respondents in what became one of the longest, most sexually explicit divorce trials in British history, he was branded by society as “the wicked duke” and shunned by the aristocracy. Lily married him anyway, and provided him with the funds he needed, but her life as the Duchess of Marlborough was shorted by his untimely death in 1892." (Daughter of Troy: Lily, Duchess of Marlborough @www.newyorkalmanack.com)
"George, heir to the 7th duke, was called Blandford by his intimates – the eldest sons of the dukes of Marlborough hold the title Marquess of Blandford – but is known to history as 'the wicked duke'. A black sheep, he was expelled from Eton and later scandalised high society when he left his wife, known as Goosie, and children for Edith, Lady Aylesford, the wife of a friend of the Prince of Wales. They had a son and set up home in Paris as Mr and Mrs Spencer. But when the boy was declared illegitimate by the House of Lords Blandford abandoned his mistress and child and returned to England." (Winston Churchill's racy relatives &xxpresscom)
George Vernon.
George de Vernon:
the King of the Peak: " . . . Haddon was held at an early period by William de Avenell, whose daughter and co-heiress, Avice, marrying Richard de Vernon, carried it into that family: his descendant, Sir George Vernon kt. by his splendor and hospitality, acquired the name of the "King of the Peak," and dying in 1567, left two daughters as co-heiresses, one of whom, Margaret, married Sir Thomas Stanley kt. of Winwick, second son of Edward, 3rd Earl of Derby K.G.; the other, Dorothy, eloped with and was married to Sir John Manners, second son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Rutland K.G. : subsequently Haddon became the property of the Dukes of Rutland, and was the principal seat of that family until the beginning of the last century. . . ."
Sir George Villiers
Steenie: a Scots contraction of Stephen that alluded to Buckingham's resemblance to a portrait of the angel-faced saint (The Murder of James I: 11)
One of the Handsomest Men in the Whole World
Steenie: a Scots contraction of Stephen that alluded to Buckingham's resemblance to a portrait of the angel-faced saint (The Murder of James I: 11)
One of the Handsomest Men in the Whole World
Zimri: "Zimri, in Dryden's play Mariage a la Mode, is intended for George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham." (Sobriquets and Nicknames: 367)
the Merry Gang (a member):
the Alcibiades of His Time:
the Alcibiades of the Seventeenth Century:
the Handsomest of the Guards: "The young officer---'one of the handsomest of the guards, and one of the most fashionable men' commented Olga---was an immediate social success, and had soon a wide circle of acquaintances in high society and in the diplomatic and literary worlds, becoming---surprisingly, since he was by no means cultured---a frequent visitor to the Karamzins' and the Vyazemskys'. Tall, with blond hair and blue eyes, distinguished by the romantic aura of a royalist exile, he was particularly successful with the opposite sex. But he did not make the most of his opportunities. Pavel Vyazemsky describes him as 'a practical, commonplace, good fellow, a joker, not at all a Lovelace or a Don Juan, who had come to Russia to make a career. His philandering offended none of the decencies of St. Petersburg high society. . . ." (Pushkin: A Biography: 499)
the Cardinal:
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