Prince Frederick of Great Britain

{{Short description|British prince; fifth son of Frederick, Prince of Wales}}

{{for multi|his father|Frederick, Prince of Wales|his nephew|Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany}}

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| name =Prince Frederick

| image =Frederick William 1754 by Liotard.jpg

| caption =Frederick aged 4 by Jean-Étienne Liotard

| full name =Frederick William

| father =Frederick, Prince of Wales

| mother =Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

| house =Hanover

| birth_date =13 May 1750

| birth_place =Leicester House, Westminster, England

| death_date = 29 December 1765 (aged 15)

| death_place =Leicester House, Westminster, England

| burial_date =4 January 1766

| burial_place =Westminster Abbey, London

}}

Prince Frederick William of Great Britain (13 May 1750 – 29 December 1765) was a grandchild of King George II and the youngest brother of King George III. He was the youngest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

He died at the young age of 15. He was buried at Westminster Abbey, London.

Life

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Frederick was born on 13 May 1750, at Leicester House, Westminster, London. His father was Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach. His mother was The Princess of Wales (née Augusta of Saxe-Gotha).

He was christened on 17 June of the same year,{{cite book|author=Robert Huish|title=The public and private life of His late...Majesty, George the Third: embracing its most memorable incidents|url=https://archive.org/details/publicandprivat00huisgoog|year=1821|publisher=Printed for T. Kelly|pages=[https://archive.org/details/publicandprivat00huisgoog/page/n62 46]}} at the same house, by the Bishop of Oxford, Thomas Secker. His godparents were his brother Prince George, his maternal uncle Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and his sister Princess Augusta.{{cite book|author=Arthur Collins|title=Peerage of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yZhcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1756|pages=31}}

The young prince died on 29 December 1765, at Leicester House.{{cite book|title=Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DI_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40|year=1772|pages=40}}

Arms

Frederick was posthumously granted the arms of the kingdom differenced by a label argent of five points, the centre bearing a fleur-de-lys azure, the other points each bearing a rose gules.[http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/cadency.htm Marks of Cadency in the British Royal Family]

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Ancestors

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|1= 1. Prince Frederick William of Great Britain

|2= 2. Frederick, Prince of Wales

|3= 3. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

|4= 4. George II of Great Britain

|5= 5. Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach

|6= 6. Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

|7= 7. Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst

|8= 8. George I of Great Britain