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Mrs Jordan (November 21, 1761 – July 5, 1816), actress, was the mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom.

She was born Dorothea Bland near Waterford, the daughter of Francis Bland and his wife, née Grace Phillips.

She became an actress and assumed the name "Mrs Jordan", because it was slightly more respectable for a married woman to be on the stage (there was no "Mr Jordan" and Dorothea Bland never married).

She became William IV's mistress and they had at least ten illegitimate children:

George Augustus (1794-1842), created Earl of Munster in 1831.
Henry Edward (1795-1817) (no issue)
Sophia (1796-1837) married Philip Charles Sidney, 1st Baron de L'Isle and Dudley
Mary (1798-1864) married General Charles Richard Fox (no issue)
Frederick (1799-1854)
Elizabeth (1801-1856) married William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll
Adolphus (Rear-Admiral) (1802-1856) (no issue)
Augusta (1803-1865) married, firstly, Lord John Kennedy-Erskine, 5 July 1827, married secondly, Admiral Lord John Frederick Gordon
Augustus (1805-1854)
Amelia (1807-1858) married Lucius Bentinck Carey, 10th Viscount Falkland

She was also romantically linked with Sir Richard Ford, a police magistrate, and Richard Daly, manager of the Theatre Royal, Cork.

She died at Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France.

Her notable descendants include:

Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Bt. Brig.-Gen., Senator of the Irish Free State (26 January 1879-19 May 1956)
Fra Andrew Bertie (b.1929) Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
David Cameron Leader of the Conservative Party, (born 9 October 1966)
John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (b.1958) former racing driver.
Charles Fitzclarence Brigadier General, recipient of the Victoria Cross (May 8, 1865- November 2, 1914)
Rupert Hart-Davis British publisher, literary editor, and man of letters (August 28, 1907 - December 8, 1999)
Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll a cross-bench member of the House of Lords (born 20 April, 1948)
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle 15th Governor-General of Australia, the last British Governor-General (23 May 1909 - 5 April 1991),

Bibliography

Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince, Claire Tomalin, October 17, 1994, Publisher: Viking, ISBN: 0670841595

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