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Welling­ton was com­mis­sioned a sec­ond lieu­tenant in the Ter­ri­to­r­ial Army in 1936, and was com­mis­sioned with the same rank (on pro­ba­tion) in the British Army Re­serve in 1939. In 1940, he was given a full com­mis­sion as a sec­ond lieu­tenant in the Royal Horse Guards Reg­i­ment, with the ser­vice num­ber 68268. He served in the Sec­ond ...

Welling­ton was in­volved in busi­ness as a Di­rec­tor of Massey Fer­gu­son Hold­ings Ltd from 1967 to 1989 and of Motor Iber­ica SA (Spain) from 1967 to 1999. He was ap­pointed a Deputy Lieu­tenant of Hamp­shire on 18 April 1975.Through his final year, the Duke con­tin­ued to con­duct pub­lic en­gage­ments, most re­cently at the Order of the Garte...

Welling­ton was twice en­gaged to Lady Rose Paget, the daugh­ter of Charles Paget, 6th Mar­quess of An­gle­sey, who even­tu­ally mar­ried the Hon. John Fran­cis McLaren. On 28 Jan­u­ary 1944 he mar­ried Diana Ruth Mc­Connel (1922–2010), only daugh­ter of Ma­jor-Gen­eral Dou­glas Mc­Connel, of Knock­do­lian, Col­mo­nell, Ayr, at St. George's Cathe­d...

On 26 De­cem­ber 1941, as Sec­ond Lieu­tenant Welles­ley, Welles­ley was awarded the Mil­i­tary Cross"in recog­ni­tion of dis­tin­guished ser­vices in the Mid­dle East (in­clud­ing Egypt, East Africa, The West­ern Desert, The Sudan, Greece, Crete, Syria and To­bruk) dur­ing the pe­riod Feb­ru­ary, 1941, to July, 1941." Welling­ton was ap­pointed a ...