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'Eighteen years, however, elapsed before Captain Augustus Hobart was able to shot his guns in view of the broadside of a European foe. He had previously enjoyed two years' half-holiday at home; that is to say, he had been appointed, as a reward for his services in South America, to a lieutenancy on board the Royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert, then commanded by the late Adolphus Fitz-Clarence.
The late Duke of Cambridge paid several visits to Newburgh, occupying what is generally called 'the Duke's Room. Rear-Admiral Lord Adolphus Fitz-Clarence, whose father was George IV, died in 1856 in the bed still kept in this room. In a glass case, at the end of a long gallery crowded with interest, are kept the uniform and accoutrements Sir George wore at Balaclava.
"She had always understood that Fitz meant something aristocratic; there was Fitz-Roy she thought that some of the King's children had been called Fitz-Roy; and there was Fitz-Clarence, now they were the children of dear good King William the Fourth.
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