Brewer's: George IV

was nicknamed “The First Gentleman of Europe,” “Fum the Fourth,” “Prince Florizel,” “The Adonis of fifty,” and “The Fat Adonis of fifty.” (See each of these nicknames.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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