6 stories mention George III on DeadlyCurious.
John Harrison, a self-taught Yorkshire carpenter, spent his life building clocks accurate enough to carry longitude to sea. His 1759 watch H4 lost only seconds on a transatlantic trial — meeting the £20,000 Longitude Prize's terms — but the Board of Longitude paid in grudging halves until King George III himself intervened. A copy of H4 guided Captain Cook.
Read the story →Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was a 4-foot-3 former kitchen servant who became the senior assistant in her brother William Herschel's astronomical observatory at Slough. She discovered eight comets between 1786 and 1797, catalogued 561 new stars and 14 nebulae, and was the first woman in any country paid by a national government as a working scientist — £50 per year from George III from 1787.
Read the story →Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was 32 when her husband Frederick, Prince of Wales, died unexpectedly in 1751. She lived another twenty-one years as the senior court figure of the Leicester House faction, raised the future George III, and substantially shaped the early Hanoverian succession before her death in 1772.
Read the story →Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of Great Britain, had been carrying a strangulated umbilical hernia for fourteen years when it ruptured in November 1737. She had concealed it from everyone including her doctors. She died after twelve days of pain. She was 54.
Read the story →Frederick, Prince of Wales died in March 1751, aged forty-four. The story that a cricket ball had killed him survived for two centuries. His lungs had killed him.
Read the story →On the morning of 25 October 1760 the King of Great Britain rang for his chocolate, walked to the privy, and was dead before his valet got back.
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