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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, died on 14 September 1852, aged 83.He was the commander of British forces and their allies in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, which finally ended the Napoleonic Wars, and served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The deaths of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness were privately commemorated, reflecting political and religious sensitivities in Northern Ireland. In Scotland, the funeral of Donald Dewar in 2000, the serving First Minister of Scotland at the time of his death, was a national event and considered to be a state funeral. [50]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
When his older brother, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, died in 1884 with no heirs, Lord Charles's eldest surviving son, Henry Wellesley inherited his uncle's dukedom as Duke of Wellington. [2] His other surviving children were raised to the rank and precedence of children of a duke in November 1884. [10]
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.
He was the younger child and only son of Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, and his wife, the Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats (elder daughter of George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar). [1] On 14 October 1933, he received a commission as a reserve second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards , and he received a regular commission in the same rank ...