Born 1738 – Died 1820 • King of Great Britain 1760 - 1820

"The King changes his ministers as often

as he changes his shirts!"

King of Prussia on George III

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This was a time of great statesmen: Walpole, Pitt, Fox, Wellington and Nelson. Great literature: Austen, Byron, Keats and Wordsworth. Great explorers, Captain Cook claimed Australia. Great turbulence: The Boston Tea Party, The American War of Independence, The Act of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and the Napoleonic Wars. Other greats included: Banking, Science, Engineering and Medicine. All shops shut throughout the Kingdom on his death, in 1820.

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Re-evaluation of George III’s clinical condition by Professor Timothy Peters and specialists at St George’s Hospital, London, indicates that the King probably suffered from ‘recurrent bipolar disorder, with at least three episodes of acute mania, chronic mania and possible dementia during the last decade of his life’.

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"I glory in the name of Britain"

King George III at his Coronation