CHAPTER L

GEORGE IV. A GENTLEMAN KING

During these disturbances George III had died and had been succeeded by

his son, George IV, who was the Prince Regent and an Inventor and very

Bad. George IV’s most memorable invention was Gentlemen and he was the

First Gentleman in Europe:

EXAMPLES OF GEORGE IV’S BADNESS AND GENTLEMANLINESS

1. He was very fat.

2. He was a friend of Beau Brocade, the memorable Dandy Dinmont or

man-about-town of those days.

3. He was a member of White’s and many other notorious Knight clubs.

4. He was hostile to his wife and attempted to give her pains by

means of an Act of Parliament.

DEATH OF GEORGE IV

Besides gentlemen, George IV had invented Regent Street, the Regent

Canal, etc., before he came to the throne, and afterwards he invented

the Brighton Marine Aquarium. He was thus a Bad Thing. Finally he died

of a surfeit of Aquaria, Pavilia, Gentlemen, etc., probably at Brighton.

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