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 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 1732. Her mother is unknown, but she was raised by her father and his mother. Her grandmother taught her piety but she was illiterate. Her father's business was bankrupt when she was 16 and she agreed to marry Mr King who was one of his deptors - in order that her father would escape jail. The marriage brought forward children but Johnson was unhappy and she returned home. She became a