Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel, prince-consort of England
1819–61
Prince consort. Married Queen Victoria in 1840. A patron of the arts and sciences. Elected chancellor of Cambridge University, 1847. Instrumental in the inception and organisation of the Great Exhibition, 1849–51. FRS 1840.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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