Honours of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a statesman and soldier. These include awards, statues and monuments, as well as buildings and places named after him.
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[edit] Statues and monuments
The Wellington Testimonial was erected in the Phoenix Park, Dublin from public subscriptions, and the obelisk and plinth are still a major feature of the park.
A statue of Wellington by the sculptor Carlo Marochetti stands in Woodhouse Moor park in Leeds, England. His boots have been painted red, presumably by local students.
In 1838 a proposal to build a statue of Wellington resulted in the building of a giant statue of him on his horse Copenhagen, placed above the Wellington Arch at Constitution Hill in London directly outside Apsley House, his former London home. Completed in 1846, the enormous scale of the 40 ton, 30 feet (9 m) high monument resulted in its removal in 1883, and the following year it was transported to Aldershot where it still stands near the Royal Garrison Church.
[edit] Places
The capital city of New Zealand is named Wellington in honour of Wellington. The city has a private preparatory school named Wellesley College and a private club, Wellesley Club. The city of Auckland, New Zealand, has a central city road named Wellesley Street after Arthur Wellesley.
Wellington Square in the Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide, South Australia, is named after Wellington, for the reason that he is credited with securing the passage of the South Australia Foundation Act through the British House of Lords.
Wellington County in Ontario, Canada is named after Wellington. It is the county surrounding the city of Guelph, Ontario.
The town of Wellington in the Nilgiri Hills district of Tamil Nadu, is the home of the Wellington Cantonment, a prestigious Indian military establishment, and college. It is near Coonoor on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway.
The village of Wellington, a community located in Prince Edward County, Ontario, is also named after Wellington.
Wellington Street in Ottawa, Canada is named after Wellington. It is the street upon which the Parliament Buildings, Canada's seat of government are located.
Queen Street in Glasgow, Scotland has a statue of Wellington astride a horse. Because the statue does not feature the tricorner hat associated with him it is often "defaced" by the placing of a traffic cone on Wellington's head.
Wellington Road is in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin.
Mount Wellington, which overlooks Hobart, the capital of the state of Tasmania, Australia is named after Wellesley.
[edit] Schools
Wellington College, Berkshire, UK, was built in memory of the Great Duke, under the orders of Queen Victoria.[1] To this day, all the boarding houses are named after the generals who fought alongside him at the Battle of Waterloo, including Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Viscount Beresford, Sir Thomas Picton, Baron Lynedoch, and the Prince of Orange. As recently as May 4, 2007, the school held a memorial service for the Iron Duke at St Paul's Cathedral, London, to commemorate his birthday.
Wellington College Belfast in Northern Ireland, a Co-Educational Grammar School in Belfast, was named after Wellington. Wellington is also a Senior Boys' house at the Duke of York's Royal Military School, where, like Welbeck College, all houses are named after prominent military figures.
[edit] Food and Drink
Beef Wellington gets its name from the general and prime minister. Ironically his favourite meat was mutton.
Wellington's likeness appears on the beer labels of the beer brewed by Wellington Brewery in Guelph, Ontario, as well as having a beer named "Iron Duke Strong Ale" in his honour.
[edit] Ships
HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line was named after the first Duke of Wellington. HMS Iron Duke, named after Wellington, was the flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland in World War I, one of three so named in the Royal Navy.
[edit] References
- ^ Wellington College, College History, Accessed 08-06-08.
