Arthur Wellesley first Duke of Wellington

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

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...

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...

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...

LCL was visiting Paris, where the Bourbon monarchy had just been restored. She was in the train of the Duke of Wellington , who had been appointed ambassador there (and had received his ducal...

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.

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...

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 .