Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington

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Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington (born June 9, 1876 , † December 11, 1941 in London ) was a British peer and politician .

Life

He came from the Wellesley family and was the eldest son of Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington and Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams. As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title of Marquess of Douro from June 1900 .

Wellesley attended the elite boarding school Eton from 1890 to 1895 and then studied at Trinity College , Cambridge . He joined the British Army and was on June 5, 1896 Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment . On October 27, 1897 he was transferred to the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and on January 17, 1900 to the Grenadier Guards . With the latter he was stationed in South Africa from March 1900 to July 1902 and took part in the fighting of the Second Boer War. In 1903 he retired from active military service. During the First World War , he was reactivated in 1915 as a reserve officer with the rank of second lieutenant and finally retired in 1919 from the army service.

When his father died in 1934, he inherited his title of nobility as the 5th Duke of Wellington and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . At times he also served as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) for Hampshire .

He died in 1941 at the age of 65 years at a pneumonia . He was buried on December 15, 1941 in the family home cemetery at Stratfield Saye House in Basingstoke , Hampshire.

Right-wing extremism

The Duke was a supporter of several right-wing extremist movements. From 1935 he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship (AGF) and president of the Liberty Restoration League , an anti-Semitic movement. When Archibald Maule Ramsay founded the Right Club in 1939 , Lord Wellington chaired the first sessions. When describing the "Club", Ramsay boasted that its "main aim was to combat the activities of organized Judaism" On the day World War II broke out , Lord Wellesley announced that this conflict was " against appeasement opponents and fucking Jews." is to be thanked ”.

His wife (left) and daughter (right), 1934

Marriage and offspring

He married the Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats († 1946) in London on March 23, 1909, the daughter of the Scottish cotton manufacturer George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar . With her he had a daughter and a son:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26749, HMSO, London, June 16, 1896, p. 3515 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26903, HMSO, London, January 26, 1897, p. 5871 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27154, HMSO, London, January 16, 1900, p. 288 ( PDF , English).
  4. ^ The War - the Queen and the Grenadier Guards. In: The Times . No. 36090, London, March 15, 1900, p. 10.
  5. ^ The Army in South Africa - The return of the Troops. In: The Times. No. 36809, London, July 2, 1902, p. 11.
  6. ^ Paul Callan: Hitler's aristocratic admirers. In: Daily Express . London, 12th September 2009.
  7. ^ Nigel Farndale: Stephen Poliakoff: Anti-semitism will always be around. In: The Daily Telegraph . London 15th November 2009.
predecessor Office successor
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
1934-1941 		Henry Wellesley
personal data
SURNAME Wellesley, Arthur, 5th Duke of Wellington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellesley, Arthur Charles, 5th Duke of Wellington; Wellesley, Arthur, Marquess of Douro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1876
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1941
Place of death London