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
Dorothea Johnson with female Methodists but she was singled out by John Wesley as the cause of the healthy state of Methodism in Lisburn the year after they married. Johnson died a widow in Lisburn on 25 July 1817 having spent 14 years leading the congregation and still steadfast in her beliefs. She was buried with her husband in Lambeg churchyard. Her "Memoirs" which she had begun in 1771 were published in 1818. Dorothea Johnson Dorothea Johnson or Dorothea Garrat; Dorothea King (4 December 1732 – 23 July 1817) was an Irish Methodist leader in Lisburn. Johnson was born in Dublin in