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17 unusual facts about Duke of Gloucester


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John Moxham
Duke of Gloucester

Addleshaw Tower

The tower was formally opened on 25 June 1975 by the Duke of Gloucester.

Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Protestant younger brother of Charles II and James II of England

Independence Memorial Hall

The monument was built at the location where the formal ceremony marking the start of self-rule, with the opening of the first parliament by the HRH Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester occurred at a special podium February 4, 1948.

Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

In 1989, HRH the Duke of Gloucester opened the Renishaw Centre, an IT room costing £60,000 and since then the School has installed three more computer rooms.

Lady Rose Gilman

The Lady Rose Victoria Birgitte Louise Gilman (née Windsor; born 1 March 1980) is the younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and is in the line of succession to the British Throne.

Lawrence Hill, Bristol

was held by the Crown until it was granted to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester during the reign

Lord Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott

He was also a paternal uncle of HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, previously Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, and thereby a maternal granduncle to HRH Prince William of Gloucester and HRH Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester.

October 2010 Abuja attacks

Nigerian paper This Day reported that British intelligence was warned of a plot against the 50th anniversary celebrations, and this was the reason Gordon Brown and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester cancelled their trips to Nigeria for the celebration.

Out of the Blue: Live at Wembley

The opening night (a charity Gala event) was filmed in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the band were introduced by US actor Tony Curtis.

Papplewick Pumping Station

It was restored from 1975 onwards and opened formally on 8 June 2005 by The Duke of Gloucester.

Pestalozzi International Village

HRH The Duke of Gloucester GCVO is the Patron of Pestalozzi International Village Trust.

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

It was originally opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester in 1980 although significantly remodeled in the late '80s and reopened in 1990.

St. James' School, Dudley

HRH The Duke of Gloucester carried out an official re-opening on 12 May 1992.

Theo Fabergé

At the time of the establishment of St Petersburg Collection, HRH The Duke of Gloucester admired Theo’s work at The Art of the Master Turner’ exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

Tim Downie

He appeared as the Duke Of Gloucester in the 2010 83rd Academy Awards-winning film The King's Speech.

White City, Gloucester

The estate was formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester, in a tree-planting ceremony held on 14 July 1928.


Rimutaka Incline

Unusual traffic included four royal trains: for the Prince of Wales in 1921; the Duke (later King George VI) and Duchess of York in 1927; the Duke of Gloucester in 1935; and Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

The Last of the Barons

Other historical figures that appear frequently in the text are Duke of Clarence, Duke of Gloucester (the future King Richard III), Marquess of Montagu, and Lord Hastings.

Waller Rodwell Wright

One of these odes, on the Duke of Gloucester's installation at Cambridge, had been printed in 1811 and forwarded in September by Dallas to Byron, who wrote: ‘It is evidently the production of a man of taste and a poet, though I should not be willing to say it was fully equal to what might be expected from the author of “Horæ Ionicæ.”’ In reference to this poem Byron had previously written in ‘English Bards:’