Lady Mary Fox Lady Mary Fox Lady Mary Fox (née FitzClarence; 19 December 1798 – 13 July 1864) was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. In later life she became a writer. Mary FitzClarence was born in Bushy House as the fourth child and second daughter of the then Prince William, Duke of Clarence, and his companion Dorothea Jordan. She was "a fine looking, brown girl with a pleasant countenance and manners". In 1820, her younger sister Elizabeth was courted by Charles Richard Fox, the eldest but illegitimate son of Lord and Lady
HMS Santa Dorothea (1798) Spanish prisoners taken was the future Argentine general José de San Martín, who at the time was a staff member on "Santa Dorothea". In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "LION 15 JULY 1798" to the remaining British survivors of the action. "Santa Dorothea" was registered on 25 December 1798 and commissioned for service that month in the Mediterranean under Captain Hugh Downman. On 28 November that year "Santa Dorothea", operating in company with , and captured the 16-gun "San Leon" on the Lisbon station. Captain William Brown was to have succeeded