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 WBLLINGTON. 88 death, 85 ywn later, his career was ehieflj that of a dietingUMhed ConeerYatiTe atateeman. He was Master Gen. of the Ordnance, with a seat in the Cabinet, 1818-27 ; Got. of Plymouth, 1819-26 ; Col. in Chief of the Ride brigade, 1820-62 ; L. Ueut. of Hants, 1820-62 ; L, High Constable for three suooessive coronations, v»., that of Geo. IV., 19 July 1821 ; of Will. IV., 8 Sep. 1881, nnd of Victoria, 28 June 1888. He was one of the two penons(*) chosen by Geo. IV. for the abortive negotistlon between him and his Consort, a dreumstiince, which, together with his opposition to the "reform" measures (now beginning to assert themselves) rendered him, the country ,'*(^) tho' during the last years of his life no one, probably, was more popular. From Sep. to Nov. 1882, he was Minister Plenipo. to the Congress of Verona ; in Feb. 1826 he was spec. Ambassador to St. Petersburg fur the coronation of the Emperor Nicholas ; C<mstable of the Tower of London and L. Lieut of the Tower Hamlets, 1826-62. On the death of the Duke of York, he became Col. of the Gren. Reg. of Foot Guards (1827-62), and Com. in Chief of the Forces (Jan. to Hsy 1827), which last office, however, he resigned 4 months later, together with that of the Onlnance, and his seat in the Cabineti on the formation of the Canning ministry, resuming it, however, from Aug. 1827 to Feb. 1828, from which date till Nov. 1880, he was (Prime Minister), Fntar Lord op thr Trraburt, the Roman Catholic relief bill being passed during that period, giving cause to a bloodless duel between him and the Earl of Wiochilsea. He was Warden of the Cinque Ports, ftc, 1829-62. During the ministry, 1830-84, of Earl Grey, his opposition to the "Reform bill,'* 1831-82, inflamed the London mob to such s degree that "he could not appear in the streets without hootings and insult," was " sssulted and injured," his house [Apsley House, Hyde Park corner], being "attacked and threatened with demolition. "(^) tie was Chancellor of the Univ. of Oxford, 1834-62. In Nov. 1884, he became Prime Minister (for the second time), holding the office of the SecretaryHhips of State, till the return in Dec. of Sir Robert Peel, under whrwe Ministry he was Foreign Sec. 1834-46. He was er. LL.n. of Cambridge, 6 July 1835 ; Master of tho Trinity House, 1887, Prom 1841 to 1846, he wss a Cabinet Minister without office, and from 1842-62, was sgain Com. in Chief of the Forces. Ranger of St Jamea* Park, and of Hyde Park, 1850-6Z He m. 10 April 1806, at St George's, Dublin, Catherine 9arah Dorothea, sister of Thomas, Earl op Lonopord [1.], 2d da. of Edward Michael (Pskcnram), 2d BaRon IjONOFORD [I ], by Catherine, da. of the lU. Hon. Hercules Langford Kowlrt. She d. 24 April 1831, at Apsley House afsd., s^ 58,(*) and wss 6iir. at Strathfield Snye, Hants. " The Duke '* (for such during nearly 40 years he had been generally atyled) d. somewhat suddenly at Walmer Castle, co. Kent, 14 Sep. 1862, in his 84th year,(<>) and was hur, in state, 18 Nov. following, at the country's azpense, in the Cathedral of St Paul's, London,(*) by the side of the famous Admiral, Lord Nelson, IL 1852. £. Arthur Richard Wbllkstjit, Dukb of Wsllino- ton, ftc., 1st B. and h. ; 6. 8 Feb. 1807, in Harlev street, Marylebone, being bap, 27 June 1808, at St Patrick's, Dublin ; was stytecf Lord (*) The other was the well known Lord Castleresgh. I*hose on the Queen's side were Mr., afterwards Lord, Brougham, and Mr., afterwards Lord, Denm.in. 0>) Ann, Rng, 1863, as on p. 82, note "b." («) Lady Elisabeth Yorke writes of her from Paris in 1814, "Her appearance does not correspond with one's notion of an Ambassadress, or the wife of a Hero." Miss Kdgeworth says : " Charming, amisble Lady Wellington, as she truly said of herself, she is always ' Kitty Pakenham to linr friends * ; nfter compsrison with crowds of oth«>r htan% etjmta Rne Indiefl and fashionnble scramblos for notoriety, her graceful simplicity rises in our opinion, and we feel it with more convicUou of its superiority." (d) His aristocratic and handsome features (notwithstanding the " immense hawk's nose " assigned to him, with great truth, in Baron Stockmar's " Memoirs ") have aifain and again been delineated. See an engraving of him " after Sir T. Lawrence, 1814," in " Doylt,^* A clever sketch of him on horsebsck, by Count D' Orssy, recalls him be^t to those who remember him only in his later years, llaikes (" Journal ") siys of him, in 1843, " Remarkably neat in his appearance, always wesring a white waistcoat [as did his brother, Marquess Wellesleyj, and a blue riding coat in the mf>ming, he is la vieUle evwr pertonifiie'' (•) A good account ia in the " ilnn. lUg,*' for 1862, pp. 482-496. A MS, vol. in the College of Arms is entirely filled with the description thereof.
 * within five vears of his great victory, one of the four most unpopular men in