King William IV
by Philip Ziegler
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Sketches the life of the British king and examines his attitudes towards political reform in the early-nineteenth century.Tags
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1233. King William IV, by Philip Ziegler (10 Aug 1973) This is a superb biography of the British sovereign who preceded Queen Victoria. He reigned from June 26, 1830, till his death on June 20, 1837, and while he was of little worth this biography is as sympathetic as possible. The account of the English parliamentary doings during this period of the Great Reform Bill of 1832 is high in interest and is excellently done. Anyone 'doing' biographies of all English sovereigns, as I am haphazardly doing, has a treat when doing William IV.
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Philip Ziegler has written many books, including The Black Death and biographies of William IV, Lord Melbourne, Lady Diana Cooper, Lord Mountbatten and Harold Wilson
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- People/Characters
- William IV, King of the United Kingdom; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn; Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom; Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom; John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer; George III, King of the United Kingdom (show all 13); George IV, King of the United Kingdom; Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; Robert Peel; Herbert Taylor; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- First words
- When George III in 1760 acceded to the British throne at the disquietingly youthful age of twenty-two, he found himself king of a country which economically, socially, politically had evolved little in the preceding sixty yea... (show all)rs.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It would seem churlish to deny that, from his country, too, he had deserved well.
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