Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington after "half a lifetime together, they had come to understand each other at the end". He had found consolation for his unhappy marriage in his warm friendship with the diarist Harriet Arbuthnot, wife of his colleague Charles Arbuthnot. Harriet's death in the cholera epidemic of 1834 was almost as great a blow to Wellington as it was to her husband. The two widowers spent their last years together at Apsley House. Wellington died at Walmer Castle in Deal on 14 September 1852. This was his residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Walmer Castle was said to have been
1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers Ports AVCs (in most cases reverting to the numbering of May–August 1860). In 1880 the Admin Brigade was consolidated as the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers, organised as follows: 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers The unit was later reduced to 13 batteries, and in April 1882 was assigned to the Cinque Ports Division of the Royal Artillery (RA). It was briefly (May 1887 to July 1889) designated the 4th Volunteer (Cinque Ports) Brigade, but reverted to its previous title and joined the Eastern Division, RA. In 1890 the Sussex batteries were separated to form the 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers,