Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington

AK 's father, William Keary, was the only son of an Irish gentleman from Galway, a former army officer. The family lost its money and land, and he had to sell his commission...

Mrs Littleton was a niece of the Duke of Wellington .

Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington to Chamberlain were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first...

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

After leaving Staffordshire the Leveson-Gower family moved to Suffolk to live at Wherstead Lodge near Ispwich.GF recollected an eventful visit to Wherstead Lodge by the Duke of Wellington in 1822 or 1823...

This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...

MC continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an...

Before his marriage Charles Cobbe served as a cornet in India with the 19th Light Dragoons ; his commission was in part lent by his commander, Arthur Wellesley , the future Duke of Wellington. He...

The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...

JWC watched the Duke of Wellington 's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House.

In the spring of 1833 AAB was presented at Court, where she met the Duke of Wellington among others. Ada began at this time to express to her mother a desire for increased independence.

Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...

CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...

MACB spent the winter of 1815-16 in Paris, where her son and daughter-in-law were also staying, and where the Duke of Wellington was holding court after the battle of Waterloo.

According to her first daughter-in-law writing years later, MACB suggested, while she and the young people were in Paris, that Emily ought to advance her husband's career by either sleeping with or at least...