See also:BARON GUSTAF ADOLF See also:REUTERHOLM (1756-1813)
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After a brief military career he was appointed Kammerherr to See also:Sophia Magdalena, See also:queen See also:consort of Gustavus III., and subsequently became intimately connected with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:brother, See also:Charles, then See also:duke of Sudermania
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He remained in the background throughout the reign of Gustavus III., whom he constantly opposed and by whom he was imprisoned along with the other malcontents in 1789
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He was abroad at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the king's See also:death, but a See also:summons from his friend, now duke See also:regent, speedily recalled him, and in 1793 he was made a member of the See also:council of See also:state and one of the " lords of the See also:realm." At first he seemed inclined to adopt a liberal See also:system, and reintroduced the freedom of the See also:press
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I-Ie did this solely, however, to See also:reverse the Gustavian system, and persecuted the stalwarts of the See also:late king (e.g
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See also:Toll) with a See also:petty vindictiveness which excited See also:general disgust
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Towards the end of the regency, See also:Reuterholm inclined towards an See also:alliance with See also:Russia on the basis of a See also:marriage between the See also:young king, Gustavus IV., and the empress See also:Catherine's granddaughter, Alexandra Pavlovna, an alliance frustrated by the bigotry of the intended See also:groom
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At See also:home the Swedish See also:government ended as ultra-reactionary, owing to an insignificant See also:riot in See also:Stockholm which so alarmed Reuterholm that he threatened all printers who printed anything See also:relating to the constitutions of the See also:French See also:republic or the See also:United States of See also:America with the loss of their privileges
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In See also:March 1795 he closed the Swedish See also:Academy because A
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Silfverstolpe in his inaugural address had ventured to disapprove of the coup d'etat of 1789
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On the See also:accession of Gustavus IV
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(See also:November 1st, 1796) Reuterholm was expelled from Stockholm
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For the next twelve years he lived abroad under the name of Tempelcrentz
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After the revolution of 1809 he returned to See also:Sweden, but was denied all See also:access to Charles XIII., and quitted his See also:country for See also:good
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He died in See also:Schleswig on the 27th of See also:December 1813
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See Sveriges Historia (Stockholm, 1877-1881), vol. v
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