Author:Arthur Wellesley

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Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852)

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1st Duke of Wellington; Irish-born British soldier and statesman, leading military and political figure of the 19th century

Arthur Wellesley

Works

• Nevilles general order (20 June 1815)
• Catholic Emancipation (2 April 1829)
• Repeal of the Corn Laws (28 May 1846)

Works about Wellesley

• "Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington," in A Compendium of Irish Biography, by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)
• "To the Duke of Wellington" by Matthew Arnold
• "Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Wellesley, Arthur," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of," in Dictionary of Indian Biography (pp. 445−446), by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)
• "Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wellington, Arthur Wellesley," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)