Cumberland, H.R.H. Duke of, H.R.H. Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

Education

Chancellor of the University of St Andrews 14.2.1746 - 31.10.1765 (died).

Birth/childhood

Born 15.4.1721 3rd son of George II and his Queen, Caroline Wilhelmina. [King]

Career

Chancellor of the University of St Andrews 14.2.1746 - 31.10.1765 (died). [St Andrews University]

Soldier, but mostly unsuccessful except at Culloden after which his extraordinary cruelty earned him the epithet ‘Bloody Cumberland’.

[Duke of Cumberland]

Death

[Died 31.10.1765.]