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Survey of London
… table was habitually used by Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G., during his tenure of office as … (Plate 24). There is also a marble bust of the Duke of Wellington on a pedestal. On the other side of the vestibule …
Old and New London
… salary is at present about 1,000 a year. The Duke of Wellington was Constable from 1820 till his death, in 1852, … allowed upon the ramparts. In 1830, when the Duke of Wellington, the Constable, filled the Tower Ditch with water, … led the storming party at Ciudad Rodrigo, who edited the "Wellington Despatches," and who died by his own hand, from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of claret in the combination room in honour of the Duke of Wellington's victory over Bonaparte in person'. 14 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… A public meeting, with the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, in the chair, and attended by the Archbishops of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was by no means the opinion of the Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, whose name had formally been included among the … States, and of Africa. 499 Since the time of the Duke of Wellington the Chancellor had taken no prominent part in …
Old and New London
… Newton, of Inigo Jones, of Izaak Walton, of the Duke of Wellington, of John Milton, and, above all, that of William …
Old and New London
… a Mrs. Dowell, who was so extremely partial to the Duke of Wellington, that she was constantly devising some new plan by … He was the elder brother of the "great" Duke of Wellington. Mr. Raikes tells us, in his "Journal:" "He had in … handsomely carved. On the spot now occupied by the Duke of Wellington's stables, there was also, in former times, an inn …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) THORN ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Wellington, hundred of Milverton, W. division of Somerset, 3 miles (W.) from Wellington; containing 136 inhabitants. It comprises by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Flaxley, was instituted rector in 1474. 10 William Wellington, the rector in 1551, was found unsatisfactory in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the subsequent establishment of a manufactory at Wellington, occasioned the decay of the woollen-trade, which …