Decrees from George III, King of Great Britain, conferring titles of nobility and military appointment, 1744-1789.

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Decrees from George III, King of Great Britain, conferring titles of nobility and military appointment, 1744-1789.

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Decree from George III conferring the title of Lieutenant of and in the County of Sommerset on Lord Frederick North, March 16, 1774. Decree from George III conferring the title of Baron Mountjoy (County of Tyrone in the kingdom of Ireland) on Luke Gardiner, September 19, 1789.

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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Mountjoy, Luke Gardiner, Viscount, 1745-1798.

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North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792

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