William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster, (19 May 1824 – 30 April 1901), styled Viscount FitzClarence from 1831 to 1842, was a British peer, and the grandson of King William IV, whom he was named after, and who died in 1837, aged almost 72, when the younger William was just 13. FitzClarence's father, George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, was an illegitimate son of King William IV by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Therefore, the second Earl of Munster was the great-grandson of King George III and first cousin once-removed of Queen Victoria. His
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