Wellesley family

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington, Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington, Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, Priscilla Fane, Countess of Westmorland, Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Prince of Waterloo, George Wellesley, William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington, Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, Gerald Valerian Wellesley, Lord Charles Wellesley, Jemma Wellesley, Countess of Mornington, Lady Charles Bentinck, Duque da Vitória, Anne Rhys, 7th Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo, Lord George Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, 6th Earl Cowley, Elizabeth Clyde, Graham Wellesley, Viscount Dangan. Excerpt: Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as simply "The Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington. Born in Ireland to a prominent Ascendancy family, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was later appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore. Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a Dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career. An opponent of parliamentary reform, he was given the epithet the "Iron Duke" because of the iron shutters he had fixed to his windows to stop the pro-reform mob from breaking them. He was twice Prime Minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was Prime Minister from 1828-30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief o