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 Fortress Royal Engineers Fourth Army by the time of the Armistice, while 547 Company moved to VI Corps in September and to Third Army by November 1918. 546th and 547th Army Field Companies were disbanded in France on 4 June 1919 and 1 May 1919 respectively. When the TF was constituted as the Territorial Army in the 1920s, the Cinque Ports (Fortress) RE was reformed as three Lights Companies, forming part of the Coast Defence Troops in 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Area. During World War II the Cinque Ports Fortress RE once again provided a field unit: 579 Army Field Company, formed in