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On 18 November 1852, he was given a state funeral at the insistence of the reigning Monarch, Queen Victoria. Only very few British subjects besides Wellington have been honoured with a state funeral. Issac Newton, Lord Nelson, and Sir Winston Churchill are among these.
On 17 November, the Duke’s body was moved to Horse Guards. On 18 November 1852 he was given a state funeral on the Queen’s insistence. Wellington is one of only a handful of British subjects to be honoured with a state funeral, alongside the likes of Lord Nelson and Sir Winston Churchill. When was the Duke of Wellington’s funeral?
The funeral service in St Paul's, with the coffin placed beneath the dome. The entrance procession, when it finally got underway, was accompanied by Psalms 39 and 90 , [ 33 ] set to a chant written by the duke's father, the Earl of Mornington , and sung by the combined choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal , a total of 120 men and boys.
The Duke of Wellington, died on September 14th 1852, aged 83, at Walmer Castle in Deal, Kent. His illustrious career was honoured with a state funeral on November 18th 1852. He is one of only about a dozen non-royals to have been venerated in this way in the last 400 years.
Nov 20, 2017 · Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the first rank of Britain's military heroes. Wellington died at Walmer Castle in Deal on 14 ...
Nov 18, 2014 · This day in 1852, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was laid to rest in St Paul’s, having died on 14 September, aged 83.Nearly half a century after Nelson’s ceremony and almost four decades of relative peace across land and sea following Waterloo, Wellington’s state funeral was the most extraordinary street procession that Londoners could remember.
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On 18 November 1852, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was laid to rest in St Paul's having died on 14 September, aged 83. Nearly half a century after Nelson's ceremony and almost four ...
