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The Duke of Wellington's funeral car, without the canopy or its supporting halberds. The original design for Wellington's hearse had been commissioned from the royal undertakers , Messers Ranting of St James , but the submitted proposal was rejected by the Earl Marshal , the 13th Duke of Norfolk , who was responsible for the ceremonial aspects ...
Wellington was 28 when his first cousin Henry, the 6th Duke, was killed in action aged 31 while serving in Italy during the Second World War. Wellington's father then became the 7th Duke, and Wellington himself came to be known by the courtesy title Marquess of Douro. He was thus named between 1943 and 1972, when he became 8th Duke upon the ...
Wellington was born on 19 August 1945 at H.R.H. Princess Christian Hospital in Windsor, Berkshire, the first son of Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington and Diana McConnel. He grew up in London and at Stratfield Saye House, his family's estate in Hampshire, and was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. [1] [2]
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Portrait of Wellesley by Richard Evans. The Honourable Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1770–1848) was a British clergyman of the Church of Ireland.. He was the fourth surviving son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington and Anne Hill-Trevor, and the brother of politician Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and diplomat Henry Wellesley ...
Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (14 July 1912 – 16 September 1943), styled as Earl of Mornington between 1912 and 1934 and Marquess of Douro between 1934 and 1941, was a British peer and politician.
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, KG, DL, FRIBA (21 August 1885 – 4 January 1972), styled Lord Gerald Wellesley between 1900 and 1943, was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, soldier, and architect. Background and education
After Henry's death she remarried William Eustace; she died in 1598. She and Henry had eight children: [7] Sir George Colley/Cowley of Edenderry b. 1561 d. 1614 in Edenderry, Ire., married successively Margaret Loftus and Eleanor Loftus. Sir George is the son from Henry's first unknown (Darcy) marriage & believed a daughter of Sir George Darcy.