<Tr> <Th> Religion </Th> <Td> Protestant </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> George II (George Augustus; German: Georg II . August; 30 October / 9 November 1683--25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick - Lüneburg (Hanover) and Prince - elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760 . </P> <P> George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain: he was born and brought up in northern Germany . His grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, became second in line to the British throne after about fifty Catholics higher in line were excluded by the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707, which restricted the succession to Protestants . After the deaths of Sophia and Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in 1714, his father George I, Elector of Hanover, inherited the British throne . In the first years of his father's reign as king, George was associated with opposition politicians, until they rejoined the governing party in 1720 . </P>

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