Civil Law, University of Oxford 28 April 1818: Founder of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George : 28 April 1815: Founder of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order Foreign honours : 25 November 1813: Knight of St. Andrew 20 April 1814: Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky Kingdom of Prussia: 11 April 1814: Knight of the Black Eagle Kingdom of France: 20 April 1814: Knight of the Holy Spirit Spain: 5 July 1814: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III Kingdom of Portugal: 7 April 1815: Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders : 8 June 1815: Knight of the Golden Fleece 1819: Grand Cross of St. Stephen : 4 July 1815: Knight of the Elephant : 1816: Knight of St. Januarius 1816: Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit : 27 November 1818: Grand Cross of the Military William Order : 1826: Knight of St. Hubert Military appointments 1782: Colonel, British Army 1796–1820: Colonel of the 10th Light Dragoons Arms George's coat of arms as the Prince of Wales was the royal arms (with an inescutcheon of Gules plain in the Hanoverian quarter), differenced by a label of three points Argent. The arms included the royal crest and supporters but with the single arched coronet of his rank, all charged on the shoulder with a similar label. His arms followed the change in the royal arms in 1801, when the Hanoverian quarter became an inescutcheon and the French quarter was dropped altogether. The 1816 alteration did not affect him as it only applied to the arms of the King. As king, his arms were those of his two kingdoms, the United Kingdom and Hanover, superimposed: Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland); overall an escutcheon tierced in pall reversed (for Hanover), I Gules two lions passant guardant Or (for Brunswick), II Or a semy of hearts Gules a lion rampant Azure (for Lüneburg), III Gules a horse courant Argent (for Westphalia), overall an inescutcheon Gules charged with the crown of Charlemagne Or, the whole escutcheon surmounted by a crown. Ancestry References Sources and further reading External links 1762 births 1830 deaths 18th-century British people 19th-century British monarchs 19th-century viceregal rulers Monarchs of the United Kingdom