Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan (22 November 17615 July 1816) also known interchangeably as Mrs Jordan, and previously Miss Francis or Miss Bland, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence. Together they had ten illegitimate children, all of whom took the surname "FitzClarence". Dorothea (often called Dorothy or Dora) Bland was born near Waterford, Ireland, on 22 November 1761, and was baptised at St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, on 5 December of that year. She was the third
Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite Lady Eliza Dorothea Tuite (née Cobbe) (c. 1764-1850) was an Irish author and poet. She was a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, the distinguished Cobbe family. Elizabeth Dorothea Cobbe was born circa 1764. She was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Cobbe and Lady Eliza Beresford. Lady Tuite married a naval officer, Sir Henry Tuite, 8th Baronet, in November 1784. He died in 1805. Lady Tuite was a poet in the romantic style, her first book included five poems written 'as a sylph', an idea which came from the somewhat earlier style of work of Pope