Spouse(s) Lilian Coats Education Eton College | Died December 11, 1941 Name Arthur 5th | |
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Born 9 June 1876 ( 1876-06-09 ) Children Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington Parents Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams Great-grandparents Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | ||
Grandparents Lord Charles Wellesley | ||
Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington (9 June 1876 – 11 December 1941), known as Arthur Wellesley from 1876 to 1900, and as Marquess of Douro from 1900 to 1934, was a British nobleman and landowner.
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Background and military career
Wellesley was the son of Lord Arthur Charles Wellesley and his wife Kathleen Bulkeley Williams. His father inherited the title and vast Wellington estates on his older brother's death in 1900, and became the 4th Duke of Wellington.
Wellesley 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. He fought with his regiment in the Second Boer War 1900-02, and returned from South Africa in July 1902, resigning his commission in 1903. He returned to active service as a temporary reserve second lieutenant in 1915, during World War I, and relinquished his commission in 1919, still a second lieutenant.
In 1934, he succeeded to the Dukedom; he was also a Justice of the Peace.
Far right
The Duke was a supporter of several far right-wing causes. He was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship from 1935 and served as President of the Liberty Restoration League, which was described by Inspector Pavey (an ex-Scotland Yard detective employed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to infiltrate the far right) as being anti-semitic. When Archibald Maule Ramsay formed the 'Right Club' in 1939, Wellington chaired its early meetings. Ramsay, describing the Right Club, boasted that "The main objective was to oppose and expose the activities of organised Jewry." On the day that World War II broke out, the Duke of Wellington was quoted as blaming the conflict on "anti-appeasers and the fucking Jews".
Family
Lord Douro married, in 1909, Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats, daughter of the George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar. They had two children