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Authorised form of nameGeorge I (1660 - 1727); King of Great Britain and Ireland
Other forms of nameGeorge Louis
George Lewis
Other forms of surnameGeorge Ludwig
Dates1660 - 1727
NationalityGerman
Place of birthHanover, Germany
Date of birth28 May 1660
Place of deathOsnabruck, Germany
Date of death12 June 1727
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The palace vaults at Hanover, Germany
ActivityCareer:
Served in the Imperial Army (1675-1693); travelled to England (1680-1682); started to take part in the government of the Electorate owing to the ill health of his father (1694), succeeded him (1698); took on British nationality (1705); became a member of the College of Electors of the Imperial Diet (1708); Arch-Treasurer of the Empire (1710); inherited the throne of Great Britain and Ireland on the death of Queen Anne (1714)
Membership categoryPatron
Date of election09/05/1727
RelationshipsSon of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England; married his cousin, Sophia Dorothea, daughter of George William, Duke of Luneberg-Celle, from whom he was divorced in 1694 after her affair with Count Konigsmark; father of George II (FRS 1727)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA7357
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CMO/2/336Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society27 April 1727
IM/001630George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland1746
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