Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death. Wellesley was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family in Ireland as The Hon. Arthur Wesley, the third of five surviving sons (fourth otherwise) of Anne and Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington. His mother was the eldest daughter of The 1st Viscount Dungannon. As such, he belonged to the Protestant Ascendancy. His biographers mostly follow the same contemporary newspaper evidence in saying that he was born on 1 May 1769, the day before he was baptised. His birthplace is uncertain. He was most likely born at his parents' townhouse, 24 Upper Merrion
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington member of the Marlborough Club, a gentleman's club. The Duchess died on 24 June 1927 at Apsley House and was interred on 28 June at Stratfield Saye. Wellesley died at Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 18 June (Waterloo Day) 1934, aged eighty-five, and was buried three days later at Stratfield Saye House, Basingstoke, Hampshire, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Wellington. His son, Arthur, succeeded him to the Wellesley family estates and titles. The Duke received the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) on 1 May 1902. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of