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Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was born in Dublin in 1769. He had little interest in education and in order to find something which "poor Arthur" could do, his parents purchased a commission for him in the British army in 1787. Wellington seemed to be in favour of Catholic Emancipation as early as 1793, when he took his seat in ...
Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, KG, GCVO, DL (15 March 1849 – 18 June 1934) was 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 the family title and estates.
A watercolour depicting a caricatured Arthur, 4th Duke of Wellington wearing sports clothes, full-length in profile to the left. There is an unidentifiable landscape background. This caricature, and those of RCIN 917009 and 914270, have all traditionally been attributed to Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle.
The Duke of Wellington was born Arthur Wesley in May 1769 (though the exact date is disputed) into an aristocratic family in Dublin, Ireland. His family was part of the governing Anglo-Irish elite. He was educated at a school in Trim and then at Eton, but he did not like it much.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington From a painting of 1854 by George Baxter. When but twelve years of age he lost his father, and little care appears to have been bestowed upon him by his mother, a somewhat harsh woman, who believed the “slender, blue-eyed, hawk-nosed, and rather sheep-faced boy” to be hopelessly deficient in mental ability.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington From a painting of 1854 by George Baxter. When but twelve years of age he lost his father, and little care appears to have been bestowed upon him by his mother, a somewhat harsh woman, who believed the “slender, blue-eyed, hawk-nosed, and rather sheep-faced boy” to be hopelessly deficient in mental ability.
Arthur Wellesley, 1e hertog van Wellington (Mornington House, Dublin, 1 mei 1769 – Walmer Castle bij Dover, 14 september 1852 ), bijgenaamd de IJzeren Hertog, was een Brits militair leider, die behoorde tot de protestantse elite in Ierland . Hoewel in Ierland geboren, noemde hij het eiland een land van schurken en was hij van mening dat enkel ...
