GEORGE IV

George IV had a vastly elaborate and expensive Coronation. The highlight was a Banquet which included the ceremony of the Presentation of the Champions for the last time. Wellington and others paraded on horseback amongst the tables and there was a medieval style Challenger in armour. The Royal Family and 312 guests, all male, took part. The womenfolk had to watch from the gallery. This ticket is a very early example of security printing.Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard (1766- 1824), was a British gentleman who served as Deputy Earl Marshal in the latter part of the reign of George III and early in the reign of George IV. On the inheritance of the Dukedom of Norfolk in 1815 by his elder brother Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, Henry Molyneux-Howard in 1817 was granted the courtesy title Lord, the style of a younger son of a duke. He carried out his duties as Deputy Earl Marshal during the planning for the coronation of King George IV, but was unable by reason of illness to act at the actual event, at which his role was taken by his kinsman Lord Howard of Effingham.