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Gloucester House was a small London house named after Prince William Henry (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d.1805), who owned it, and who died in it. The front entrance was on Upper Grosvenor Street. William Henry was brother to King George III, and held honorary military titles, but he was most known for his secret marriage 1766 to Maria Walpole, the Dowager Countess of Waldegrave, an illegitimate granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole. | Gloucester House was a small London house named after Prince William Henry (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d.1805), who owned it, and who died in it. The front entrance was on Upper Grosvenor Street. William Henry was brother to King George III, and held honorary military titles, but he was most known for his secret marriage 1766 to Maria Walpole, the Dowager Countess of Waldegrave, an illegitimate granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole. | ||
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GLOSTER HOUSE. AKA - "Gloucester House." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to its printing in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 5 (1788), the jig appears in Straight & Skillern's Two Hundred & Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775, p. 38), and Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels... (London, 1780, p. 67).
Gloucester House was a small London house named after Prince William Henry (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d.1805), who owned it, and who died in it. The front entrance was on Upper Grosvenor Street. William Henry was brother to King George III, and held honorary military titles, but he was most known for his secret marriage 1766 to Maria Walpole, the Dowager Countess of Waldegrave, an illegitimate granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 168, p. 84
Recorded sources:
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