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WELLINGTON, DUKE OF (ARTHUR WELLESLEY) (1769–1852), British army general and politician. The Duke of Wellington has been admired far more for his command of the British army than for his contribution to parliamentary politics. He was Britain's most revered and respected army general during the nineteenth century, but also a very unpopular ...
The Regimental Memorial, Woolshops, Halifax Regimental memorial designer and Sculptor Andrew Sinclair and his wife Diane, who worked on the memorial with Andrew. Click on the blue links below to hear them. Story of the Regiment in words and music (48 minutes) (shortened version – edited from the Halifax Minster Service):
Duke Ellington. Edward Kennedy " Duke " Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. [1] Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his ...
Often referred to solely as "The Duke of Wellington", he led a successful military career in the Indian subcontinent during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–99) and the Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805), and in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). Starting his career in 1787 as a commissioned officer in the infantry, before ...
Wellington was named after the Duke of Wellington 25 years later after he defeated Napoleon at the famous Battle of Waterloo in 1815. THE LADY LOCH BRIDGE In September 1853, on the same day on which Bain’s Kloof Pass was opened, the first wooden bridge across the Berg River, giving access to Cape Town, the Swartland and Paarl was opened with a big ceremony.
Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, KG, GCVO, DL (15 March 1849 – 18 June 1934), styled Lord Arthur Wellesley from 1884 to 1900, was a British peer and politician, and a member of the well-known Wellesley family. He joined the military and served in the Household Division. Upon his childless brother's death in 1900, he inherited ...
Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (née Pakenham; 14 January 1773 – 24 April 1831), known before her marriage as Kitty Pakenham, was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Property. Value. dbo: abstract. Hon. Catherine „Kitty“ Sarah Dorothea Pakenham (Ehename: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of ...
