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 1899. The scheme floundered because of opposition from the people of Dover. A.R. Stenning was also the surveyor for the Guilford Tramway, and it is possible that the intention was to incorporate that tramway into the overall route of the Cinque Ports Light Railway as the Guilford Tramway was built to this gauge. 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