Lord Frederick FitzClarence

Lieutenant-General Lord Frederick FitzClarence, GCH (9 December 1799 – 30 October 1854) was a British Army officer and the third illegitimate son of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan.

[2] Frederick FitzClarence gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot.

[1] On 24 May 1831, he was granted the rank of a marquess' younger son by his father, William IV, upon the latter's ascension to the throne.

that same year, he became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in 1847,[3] and then Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1852.

[1] The coat of arms of Lord Frederick FitzClarence were the royal arms of King William IV (without the escutcheon of the Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and without the Crown of Hanover) debruised by a baton sinister (azure(?))

Bookplate showing the coat of arms of Lord Frederick FitzClarence, inscribed: "This belonged to my Father when Duke of Clarence and was left to me by the Will of Queen Adelaide "