Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington

Who was Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington?

Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington was the son of Arthur Charles Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, and Kathleen Bulkeley Williams.

He attended Eton between 1890 and 1895, and later attended Trinity College at Cambridge. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment, and in January 1900 joined the Grenadier Guards as Second lieutenant. With the Grenadier Guards, he fought in the Boer War in 1900, and later in World War I.

In 1934 he succeeded to the Dukedom; he was also a Justice of the Peace.

Wellington married Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats, the daughter of the George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar in 1909. He had two children: Anne Rhys, 7th Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo, and Captain Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington.