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Tag Archives: The Duke of Wellington
what’s in a name?
….exceptionally, there is sometimes a reverse process at work, when a particular person becomes so closely identified with a particular thing or process that their name passes into the language as a word…… Although she had persuaded her husband to … Continue reading
search for a less than humble abode
Parliament voted a king’s ransom to that the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley could have a home, a palace, a mansion, fit for his status as savior of the British empire. And after Waterloo that sum increased further. Yet house … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Soane architect, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir Robert Walpole, Stratfield Saye, The Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, William Hazlitt, William Sadler
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mad for a mansion
Ahh. The woes of Britain’s greatest hero, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. And all he wanted was a little place in the country, do a little hunting, and stretch out. Yet eight years and a procession of at least … Continue reading
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Tagged battle of waterloo, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington The Iron Duke, Galbraith Lowry Cole, Isaac Cruikshank, John Churchill, John Soane, Lord Gage the Garden of England, Luton Hoo Lady Salisbury, Robert Seymour, Robert Smirke, Sir Henry Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington
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