William IV of the United Kingdom William IV of the United Kingdom William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover. William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the "Sailor King". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (, meaning "The Afternoon Towing") is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965. Translator John Nathan, in his memoir "Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere" writes:My completed translation was due on January 1, 1965, and I was still struggling to contrive an English title for the book. Mishima’s title was an untranslatable pivot on the word “tugging,” as in tugboat. Literally it meant “tugging in the afternoon,” "Gogo no