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
Cinque Ports Light Railway Cinque Ports Light Railway The Cinque Ports Light Railway was a scheme to build an electric tramway from Ramsgate to Hastings via Dover. In the 1880s the South Eastern Railway appointed Sir Alexander Rose Stenning, a commercial architect who later became president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, to examine various development opportunities for the railway. These included proposals for the Cinque Port's Light Railway. It is likely that, had it been built, the gauge would have been 3 ft 6 in, allowing it to run through the Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways and Dover Corporation Tramways. In 1871,