High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rear- Admiral Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, GCH, ADC, RN (18 February 1802 – 17 May 1856) was a British naval officer. FitzClarence was born at Bushy Park, Middlesex and was an illegitimate child of Prince William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and his mistress, Dorothy Jordan. He attended a boarding school in Sunbury-on- Thames before being sent to sea at the age of eleven in 1813, aboard HMS Impregnable. He subsequently served as a midshipman aboard HMS Newcastle based in North America and then later in the Mediterranean Sea. On receiving his commission in 1824, he transferred to HMS Euryalus and after being promoted to the rank of Commander in 1832, he later served aboard HMS Brisk and Redwing in the North Sea. When promoted to Captain in 1826, he commanded HMS Ariadne that year, HMS Challenger in 1827 and HMS Pallas in 1828.

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