King of England (1830-1837).
The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother, George IV, in 1830.
William entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman when aged 14. He was at the battle of cape St Vincent in 1780 and became captain in the West Indies station in 1786. In 1827 he was made Lord High Admiral.
His marriage to actress Miss Jordan with whome he lived for 20 years was morganatic and in 1817, when he came into the succession on the death of Princess Charlotte, George IV's daughter, he married Adelaide of saxe-Meiningen.
Wiliam's reign covered a period of great political and social unrest which resulted from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars ending with the decisive British victory at the Battle of waterloo in 1815. his statesmanship was not equal to the task bringing the monarch into conflict with his ministers and the parliamentary majority.
It was due to William IV, however, that the Reform Bill crisis of 1831/2 passed without danger to Britain. The King's consent to create sufficient Whig peers to overcome the opposition of the House of Lords to electoral reform allowed Lord Grey to carry the Reform Bill (and established the dominant position of the House of Commons over the Lords).
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