Duke of Inverness

Duke of Inverness was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

The title was created for Lady Cecilia Underwood on March 30, 1840 .

She was since 1831 with Augustus Frederick, 1st Duke of Sussex , the sixth son of King George III. married, but the marriage was never formally recognized because of the Royal Marriages Act 1772 , so she did not become Duchess of Sussex and British Princess . So Queen Victoria eventually created her a title in her own right. The naming of this title refers to the title Earl of Inverness , which her husband held as a subordinate title since 1801.

Since she left no descendants, the title expired on her death on August 1, 1873.

List of the Dukes of Inverness (1840)

Cecilia Underwood, 1st Duchess of Inverness (around 1785–1873)

Individual evidence

^ The London Gazette : 19842, 858 , March 31, 1840.

[1] The London Gazette : 19842, 858 , March 31, 1840.