Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington

While she was kept by the Marquess of Lorne, HW indulged herself in a brief affair with the future Duke of Wellington , who was at the time no celebrity and no strong attraction to...

The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...

The apochryphal story that the Duke of Wellington returned one of Wilson's blackmailing letters with the scribbled annotation write and be d—d (universally converted by folklore to publish and be damned) originates not...

Susan Buchan (later ST ) published her first biography, taking as a subject one of her collateral ancestors, The Sword of State: Wellington after Waterloo.

Through her father ST was great-great-niece of the first Duke of Wellington .

CMT 's father, Henry St George Tucker , lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became...

The Tuckers had an active social life. The children acted in their father's plays, and as they grew older the family often entertained at home or attended dinner parties. The fancy-dress ball they gave for...

Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...

Her next salon was frequented by such luminaries as Alexander I , Talleyrand , and the Duke of Wellington .

The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , cut their holiday short and left Venice for London to attend the November funeral of the Duke of Wellington .

AO 's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko and later to the Duke of Wellington and General Lafayette . In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers.

CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood

Guizot , the French Minister of Public Instruction, was ordered by Louis Philippe to translate the Illustrations for the French national schools. He considered HM to be the only woman ever to have affected legislation...

The novel is unashamedly partisan. Paula R. Feldman calls it a roman à clef. The rhetoric of repeal is introduced through the figure of Jim Cassidy, Grace's husband, who has already excused breaking his oath...