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His Royal Highness Field Marshal The Prince Adolphus Frederick, KG, PC, GCB, GCMG, GCH, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Culloden, was born at Buckingham Palace. He was tutored at home before being sent to the University of Göttingen in Germany in summer 1786, along with his brothers Prince Ernest (created Duke of Cumberland in 1799) and Prince Augustus (created Duke of Sussex in 1801). In 1791, he and Prince Ernest went to Hanover to receive military training under the supervision of the Hannoverian commander Field Marshal von Freytag. He rose to the ranks of colonel in 1794, to lieutenant general in 1798, and field marshal in 1813. George III appointed Prince Adolphus a Knight of the Garter on 6 June 1786 and created him Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Culloden on 17 November 1801Events January 1 Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. January 1 Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the first (and largest) asteroid Ceres. January 20 J. Later the King appointed him to the Privy CouncilThis article concerns the British Sovereign's Privy Council. See also Privy Council (disambiguation). Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. Formerly, the Council was a powerful institution, but is now and conferred upon him the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the ancient ceremony wherein individuals participated in a vigil of fasting, prayer and bathing on the day before being knighted, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (later George IV) whilst he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III. The Order includes three, and the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (GCH). The Duke served as colonel-in-chief of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards (Coldstream Guards after 1855) from September 1805 and as colonel-in-chief of the 60th (The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot from January 1824.
The Duke of Cambridge was married first at Cassel, HesseHesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. With an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants, Hesse (German Hessen is one of Germany's sixteen federal states ( Bundeslander . on 7 May and then at Buckingham Palace on 1 June 18181818 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events February 12 Chile gains its independence from Spain March 11 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published March 22 Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: to his second cousin Augusta ( 25 July 1797- 6 April 1889), the third daughter of Friedrich III, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had three children:
From 1816 to 1837, the Duke of Cambridge served as viceroy of Hanover on behalf of his elder brothers, George IV and later William IV. When his niece, Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne on 20 June 1837, the 123-year union of the crowns of Great Britain (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801) and Hanover ended. The Duke of Cumberland became King Ernest I of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge returned to Britain.
The Duke of Cambridge died on 8 July 1850 at Cambridge House, Paccadilly, London, and was buried at Kew. His remaines were later removed to St. George's Chapel, Windsor. His only son, Prince George, succeeded to his peerages.