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17 de nov. de 2019 · Napoleonic Wars: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Arthur Wellesley was born in Dublin, Ireland in late April or early May 1769, and was the fourth son of Garret Wesley, Earl of Mornington and his wife Anne. Though initially educated locally, Wellesley later attended Eton (1781-1784), before receiving additional schooling in Brussels, Belgium.
7 de fev. de 2014 · Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, married comparatively late in life, to a woman whom he had loved as a young man. Sadly, his wife was not suited to life as the spouse of a public figure, and the marriage was not a success, for either party. Today, Cheryl Bolen, award-winning Regency romance author, whose most recent book, A Lady By ...
By Cheryl Bolen. Arthur Wellesley, who became the Duke of Wellington in 1814, shared many things with aristocratic younger sons who chose military careers. Like many young officers separated from suitable prospective spouses for long periods of time during battles and campaigns, he longed for a wife of his own class.
8 de nov. de 2019 · Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington - portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) English Heritage. Legacy. The first Duke of Wellington has at least 90 English pubs named after him. But not, sadly, the one owned by his descendent Sofia Wellseley, who runs the Fox and Pheasant with James Blunt, hard by the Chelsea football stadium.
Gray, Peter. Wellesley (Wesley), Arthur (1769–1852), 1st duke of Wellington , soldier and politician, was born 1 May 1769 at Mornington House, 6 Merrion Street, Dublin, the third surviving son of Garret Wesley (qv) (1735–81), 1st earl of Mornington, and his wife, Anne (née Hill; 1742–1831), daughter of 1st Viscount Dungannon (qv).
Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1773-1831) was the daughter of Edward Pakenham 2nd Baron Longford of Tullynally Castle and his wife Catherine Rowley. She was one of ten children and more commonly referred to as Kitty.
21 de jun. de 2023 · Weeks after carrying Queen Mary’s Crown at the coronation, Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, and his wife, the former Princess Antonia of Prussia, had the privilege of joining King Charles III and Queen Camilla in their carriage on the first day of the first Royal Ascot of the new reign. Surely, there is no clearer sign that the couple are at the heart of Their Majesties’s inner ...
