The Duke of Wellington is Chairman of Richemont Holdings UK, and a Director of Compagnie Financière Richemont and RIT Capital plc. He was previously a director of Sanofi SA and of Pernod Ricard SA. He ...
The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.
In the life of George Stephenson, the distinguished railroad engineer, it is stated that for a long long period of time the Duke of Wellington would not trust himself behind a locomotive.
In 1808 he went to the Peninsular and to Lisbon on the staff of General Sir Arthur Wellesley who became Duke of Wellington. He saw action in Spain and Portugal and at the battle of Talavera and ...
At the award ceremony the winning authors were given the medal by The Duke of Wellington, a member of the Judging Panel and the prime mover behind the establishment of the Medal in honour of the 1st ...
The Iron Duke is named after the Duke of Wellington, and a distinct Wellington ... with 98% of the school staff looking thoroughly disgruntled at the imposition. There are also various Wellington ...