Page:Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Titles of Courtesy.djvu/558

 486 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Weik, Baron, title borne by the Earl of Breadalbane Welles, ' Earl of Ranfurly, Wellesley, family name of Earl Cowley. the Duke of Wellington. WELLINGTON, DUKE OF. (WELLESLEY.) ARTHUR RICHARD WELLESLEY, 2nd Duke, K.G. P.C. LL.D. Lord Lieut, of Middlesex. Born Feb. 3rd, 1807; suc- ceeded his father as 2nd Duke of Welling- ton in 1852, and his cousin, as 6th Earl of Mornington, ~ 863 : was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge; entered the Army, 1823, and is a Lie ut. -General ; was Aide-de-Camp to his father 1842 52, and Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the Vic- toria Rifles (Middlesex) 185370; is Fortune is the companion of valour. Lord Lieut - of Middlesex, Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge, and sat as M.P. for Aid- borough, 182930, and 1831, and for Norwich, 183752 ; was Master of the Horse, 1853 8 : married (1839) Lady Elizabeth Hay, 4th daughter of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, K..T. (late Mistress of the Robes). Heir presumptive, His nephew, Henry, M.P., son of Lord Charles, 2nd son of the late Duke. B. 1846; was educated at Eton; is Lieut, and Capt.in the Grenadier Guards. Has sat as M.P. for Andover (C.) since Feh. 1874. Seat, Conholt-park, Andover. Residence, 27, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, W. Club, Guards'. Patron of five livings, Strathfieldsaye, R. Silchester, R. Strathfield Turgis, R. Wool- verton, R. Ewhurst, R. Hampshire. Creations, Baron Mornington, 1746, Earl of Mornington and Viscount Wellesley* 1760, all in the peerage of Ireland. Viscount Wellington, and Baron Douro, 1809, Earl of Wellington, 1812, Marquess of Wellington, 1812, Marquess of Douro, 1814, Duke of Wellington, 1814, all in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Prince of Waterloo, 1815 ; Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, and a Grandee of the 1st Class of Spain, 1812, Duqua da Vittoria, 1812; Marques de Torres Vedras, 1812; and Count de Vimiera (Portugal) 1811. Slrais, Gfuarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, a cross, argent, in each quarter five plates in saltire, Wellesley : 2nd and 3rd, or, a lion rampant, gules, ducally collared, gold, Cowley : over all, in the centre chief point, an escutcheon of augmentation charged with the union Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-lion rampant, gules, holding in the paws a forked pennon, argent, flowing to the sinister, charged with the cross of St. George, the ends gules. Supporters, Two lions, gules, gorged with Eastern coronets, and chained, or. Seat, Strathfieldsaye, Winchfield, Hampshire. Town Residence, Apsley-house, Piccadilly, W. Ctois, Carlton, United Service. WELLINGTON, Dnke of, His Grace's predecessor in the Dukedom of Wellington, was b : s father^ Arthur Wellesley, K.G. K.B. 1st Duke of Wellington, sr-l son of the 1st Earl of Mornington. He was b. May 1, 1/69; was educated at Eton, and appointed Ensign in the 73rd Regiment, 1787 ; Lieut, in the 76th Foot^