Chapter L: George IV. a Gentleman King

During these disturbances George III had died and had been succeeded by his son, George IV, who was the Prince Regent and an Inventor and very Bad. George IV’s most memorable invention was Gentlemen and he was the First Gentleman in Europe:

EXAMPLES OF GEORGE IV’S BADNESS AND GENTLEMANLINESS

1. He was very fat.

2. He was a friend of Beau Brocade, the memorable Dandy Dinmont or
man-about-town of those days.

3. He was a member of White’s and many other notorious Knight clubs.

4. He was hostile to his wife and attempted to give her pains by
means of an Act of Parliament.

DEATH OF GEORGE IV

Besides gentlemen, George IV had invented Regent Street, the Regent Canal, etc., before he came to the throne, and afterwards he invented the Brighton Marine Aquarium. He was thus a Bad Thing. Finally he died of a surfeit of Aquaria, Pavilia, Gentlemen, etc., probably at Brighton.