Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington

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Lt.-General Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington KG PC (3 February 1807 – 13 August 1884) was a soldier and British nobleman.

He was the son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Catherine Sarah Dorothea Pakenham, daughter of Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, and succeeded his father in 1852. In 1853 he was made a Privy Councillor and a Knight of the Garter in 1858. In 1863 he inherited the Irish title of Earl of Mornington from his cousin. In 1839 he had married Lady Elizabeth Hay, but they had no children, so at his death he was succeeded in his titles by his nephew, Henry.

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On his father's death: "Think what it will be when the Duke of Wellington is announced and only I come in."

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Wyndham Lewis Joshua Walker	Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh with Joshua Walker 1829, Spencer Kilderbee 1829–1830 John Croke 1830–1832 1829–1832	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by Viscount Stormont Robert Scarlet	Member of Parliament for Norwich with Robert Scarlet 1835–1838 Benjamin Smith 1838–1847 Sir Samuel Peto 1847–1854 1837–1852	Succeeded by Sir Samuel Peto Edward Warner
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Jersey	Master of the Horse 1853–1858	Succeeded by The Duke of Beaufort
Titles of Nobility
Preceded by Arthur Wellesley	Duke of Wellington 1852–1884	Succeeded by Henry Wellesley
Preceded by William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley	Earl of Mornington 1863–1884