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- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of (1769–1852). Soldier and prime minister.Arthur Wellesley was the third surviving son of the earl of Mornington, an impoverished Irish peer.
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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Duke of Wellington was born in Dublin to the Earl and Countess of Mornington. Fatherless at an early age, and neglected by his mother, he was a reserved, withdrawn child. He failed to shine...
History. The first earl was the eldest son of Richard Wesley, the first Baron Mornington. Richard Wesley, born Richard Colley, was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Mornington, of Mornington, in 1746. [1] He had inherited the Dangan and Mornington estates in County Meath on the death of his first cousin Garret Wesley in 1728.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington (born May 1, 1769, Dublin, Ireland—died September 14, 1852, Walmer Castle, Kent, England) was an Irish-born commander of the British army during the Napoleonic Wars and later prime minister of Great Britain (1828–30).
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).
The Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wellesley, married, 10th April 1806, Lady Catherine Pakenham, daughter of Lord Longford, descended from a family settled in Ireland since 1576. She died in April 1831.
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When Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Of Wellington was born on 1 May 1769, in Dublin, Ireland, his father, Garret Wellesley 1st Earl of Mornington, was 33 and his mother, Anne Hill-Trevor, was 26. He married Hon. Catherine Sarah Dorothea Pakenham on 10 April 1806, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.
