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Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (14 July 1912 – 16 September 1943), styled as Earl of Mornington between 1912 and 1934 and Marquess of Douro between 1934 and 1941, was a British peer and politician. Life and career.
- 14 July 1912, England
- The 5th Duke of Wellington
- 16 September 1943 (aged 31), Salerno, Italy
- The 7th Duke of Wellington
Henry Wellesley, primer barón de Cowley (20 de enero de 1773-27 de abril de 1847), fue un diplomático y político angloirlandés. Era el hermano menor del diplomático y político Richard Wellesley , secretario del Foreign Office entre 1808 y 1812, y del militar y político Arthur Wellesley , primer duque de Wellington .
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The titles of Duke of Wellington and Marquess Douro were bestowed upon Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington, on 3 May 1814 after he returned home a hero following Napoleon's abdication. He fought some sixty battles during his military career. He was considered "the conqueror of Napoleon". He stands as one of the finest soldiers that Great B...
Should the direct male line of succession from the first Duke of Wellington become extinct, the dukedom and its subsidiary titles in the British peerage will become extinct, as will the titles of Prince of Waterloo in the Dutch peerage and the dukedom of the Victory and its subsidiary titles in the Portuguese peerage. The dukedom of Ciudad Rodrigo ...
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1. Cokayne, G.E. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. IX (new, reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 235
- Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington
- Peerage of the United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley ( Dublín, 1 de mayo de 1769- Walmer, 14 de septiembre de 1852), más conocido, a partir de 1814, por su título de duque de Wellington, fue un militar, político y estadista británico de origen irlandés, con una participación destacada en las guerras de coalición o guerras napoleónicas, particularmente al frente de las tropas anglo...
Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (1912–1943), British peer and politician. Henry Wellesley (1804 ship), a barque that made three whaling voyages and two voyages carrying convicts to Australia before she was wrecked in 1841. Categories: Disambiguation pages. Human name disambiguation pages.
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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.
