William Augustus, duke of Cumberland

(1721-1765)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 1721-1765 NRA: Cumberland William Augustus (1721-1765) Duke of Cumberland General DNB: William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), army officer LBT ID: DuCumbe1765 VIAF ID: 57457152 LOC ID: n84090592	B/BAP: 1721-04-15 DIED: 1765-10-31
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The son of George II; he was a military officer and politician remembered in Scotland as “The Butcher of Culloden.”
REFERENCES TO William Augustus, duke of Cumberland: Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [23 April 1802] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter VIII 1831 Found 1: ¶ 27 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 29 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 1: 1794-1808 Found 1: ¶ 22 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ n4 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802