Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington

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Wellington, 1984
Wellington, at a parade (2006)

Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington , KG , LVO , OBE , MC (born July 2, 1915 in Rome , † December 31, 2014 in Stratfield Saye ) was a British peer , military and entrepreneur .

life and career

He was the son and heir of Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington and Dorothy Violet Ashton. As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title of Marquess Douro from 1943 to 1972 . Wellesley attended Eton College and completed his studies at the New College of the University of Oxford as a Bachelor of Arts from.

In 1936 he joined the British Army as an officer . In World War II he served in the Household Cavalry , in the post-war period he rose to the command of the Household Cavalry Regiment . He was a commander in the 22nd Armored Brigade and the 1st Royal Armored Corps . From 1964 to 1967 he was a military attaché in Madrid . In 1968 he was released from military service with the rank of brigadier .

From 1967 to 1989 he was managing director of the agricultural machinery manufacturer Massey Ferguson .

When his father died in 1972, he inherited his title of nobility as the 8th Duke of Wellington . From 1975 he held the post of Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire . In 1990 he was accepted into the Order of the Garter as a Knight Companion . Since 1993 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Marriage and offspring

In 1944 he had married Diana McConnel († 2010), daughter of Major-General Douglas McConnel (1893–1961) in Jerusalem . The couple have four sons and one daughter.

  • Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington (* 1945);
  • Lord Richard Gerald Wellesley (born 1949);
  • Lady Caroline Jane Wellesley (born 1951);
  • Lord John Henry Wellesley (born 1954);
  • Lord James Christopher Douglas Wellesley (* 1964).

When he died on his Stratfield Saye House estate in Hampshire in 2014 , his eldest son Charles inherited his titles.

Web links

Commons : Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duke of Wellington dies at Stratfield Saye, aged 99. BBC.com
  2. ↑ Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn . Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd, London 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 , p. 4115 (WELLINGTON, D).
  3. ^ The Duke of Wellington obituary in The Guardian , December 31, 2014, accessed January 1, 2015
  4. ^ Member History: Arthur Wellesley. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wellesley, Arthur, 8th Duke of Wellington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wellesley, Arthur Valerian, 8th Duke of Wellington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, military man and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2014
Place of death Stratfield Saye