Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington, (9 June 1876 – 11 December 1941), known as Arthur Wellesley from 1876 to 1900, and as Marquess of Douro from 1900 to 1934, was a British nobleman and landowner. Wellesley was the son of Lord Arthur Charles Wellesley and his wife Kathleen Bulkeley Williams. His father inherited the title and vast Wellington estates on his older brother's death in 1900, and became the 4th Duke of Wellington. Wellesley attended Eton between 1890 and 1895, and later attended Trinity College at Cambridge. He was commissioned as a
Wellesley Aron Wellesley Aron Major Wellesley Aron, (1901–1988), was born in England but lived most of his life in British Mandated Palestine and then Israel. His obituary by Philip Gillon in "The Jerusalem Post" sums it up. "Wellesley Aron, who died a week ago, a few days before his 87th birthday, could have been typecast for one of those BBC films about idealistic English upper class officers and gentlemen who espouse what appears to be hopeless causes and convert them into practical successes, in defiance of prejudices and huge obstacles. Physically, he looked the part, with his ramrod-straight back and his major's