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class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1876-06-09</span>)</span>9 June 1876<br /><a href="/wiki/London,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="London, England">London, England</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">11 December 1941<span style="display:none">(1941-12-11)</span> (aged 65)<br /><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">The Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anne_Rhys,_7th_Duchess_of_Ciudad_Rodrigo" title="Anne Rhys, 7th Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo">Lady Anne Wellesley</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wellesley,_6th_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington">Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_4th_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington">Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington</a><br />Kathleen Bulkeley Williams</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Arthur Charles Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice of the Peace">JP</a></span></span> (9 June 1876 – 11 December 1941), known as <b>Arthur Wellesley</b> from 1876 to 1900, and styled as <b>Marquess of Douro</b> from 1900 to 1934, was a British nobleman and landowner. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_military_career">Background and military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wellesley was born in 1876 to <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_4th_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington">Arthur Charles Wellesley</a> (youngest son of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Charles_Wellesley" title="Lord Charles Wellesley">Lord Charles Wellesley</a>) and his wife, Kathleen Bulkeley Williams. Wellesley's father inherited the ducal title and vast Wellington estates upon <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wellesley,_3rd_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington">his elder brother</a>'s death in 1900, and became the 4th <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington_(title)" title="Duke of Wellington (title)">Duke of Wellington</a>. </p><p>Wellesley attended <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton</a> between 1890 and 1895, and later attended <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>. He was commissioned as a <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)">lieutenant</a> in the 4th (<a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_Kingdom)" title="Militia (United Kingdom)">Militia</a>) battalion of the <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincolnshire Regiment">Lincolnshire Regiment</a> on 7 July 1897, and served as <a href="/wiki/Aide-de-camp" title="Aide-de-camp">Aide-de-camp</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Uchter_Knox,_5th_Earl_of_Ranfurly" title="Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly">Earl of Ranfurly</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors-General_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors-General of New Zealand">Governor of New Zealand</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a> in late 1899, he joined the regular army as a <a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">second lieutenant</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Grenadier_Guards" title="Grenadier Guards">Grenadier Guards</a> on 17 January 1900,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was part of a detachment sent to South Africa in March 1900 to reinforce the 3rd battalion fighting in the war.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served with his regiment there until July 1902, when he returned home after the war ended the previous month.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He resigned his commission in 1903. He returned to active service as a temporary reserve second lieutenant in 1915, during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and relinquished his commission in 1919, still a second lieutenant. </p><p>In 1934, he succeeded to the dukedom. He was also a <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">justice of the peace</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_activism">Political activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The duke was a supporter of several <a href="/wiki/Far_right-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Far right-wing">far right-wing</a> causes. He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-German_Fellowship" title="Anglo-German Fellowship">Anglo-German Fellowship</a> from 1935 and served as President of the <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Restoration_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberty Restoration League">Liberty Restoration League</a>, which was described by Inspector Pavey (an ex-Scotland Yard detective employed by the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Deputies_of_British_Jews" title="Board of Deputies of British Jews">Board of Deputies of British Jews</a> to infiltrate the far right) as being <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitic</a>. When <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Maule_Ramsay" title="Archibald Maule Ramsay">Archibald Maule Ramsay</a> formed the '<a href="/wiki/Right_Club" title="Right Club">Right Club</a>' 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."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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". He died of pneumonia in 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1909, he married Lilian Maud Glen Coats, elder daughter of <a href="/wiki/George_Coats,_1st_Baron_Glentanar" title="George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar">George Coats</a> (who became the 1st <a href="/wiki/Baron_Glentanar" title="Baron Glentanar">Baron Glentanar</a> in 1916). They had two children: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Rhys,_7th_Duchess_of_Ciudad_Rodrigo" title="Anne Rhys, 7th Duchess of Ciudad Rodrigo">Lady Anne Wellesley</a> (1910–1998), married the Hon. David Rhys, younger son of the <a href="/wiki/Walter_Rhys,_7th_Baron_Dynevor" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Rhys, 7th Baron Dynevor">7th Baron Dynevor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">Captain</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wellesley,_6th_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington">Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington</a> (1912–1943), unmarried.</li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Maud_Coats,_1906.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lilian Maud Glen Coats by John Singer Sargent, 1906"><img alt="Lilian Maud Glen Coats by John Singer Sargent, 1906" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg/88px-Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg/132px-Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg/177px-Maud_Coats%2C_1906.jpg 2x" data-file-width="663" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Lilian Maud Glen Coats by <a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a>, 1906</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marchioness_of_Douro,_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats,_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington,_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marchioness of Douro (née Lilian Maud Glen Coats) by Philip de László, 1922"><img alt="Marchioness of Douro (née Lilian Maud Glen Coats) by Philip de László, 1922" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg/87px-Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg" decoding="async" width="87" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg/131px-Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg/175px-Marchioness_of_Douro%2C_n%C3%A9e_Lilian_Maud_Glen_Coats%2C_later_5th_Duchess_of_Wellington%2C_by_Philip_Alexius_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2336" data-file-height="3200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Marchioness of Douro (<i>née</i> Lilian Maud Glen Coats) by <a href="/wiki/Philip_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3" title="Philip de László">Philip de László</a>, 1922</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He died at 20 Devonshire Place, London. His probate was sworn the next year at £134,262.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hart′s Army list, 1900</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGazette27154" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27154/page/288">"No. 27154"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 16 January 1900. p. 288.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+27154&rft.pages=288&rft.date=1900-01-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F27154%2Fpage%2F288&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArthur+Wellesley%2C+5th+Duke+of+Wellington" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"The War – the Queen and the Grenadier Guards". <i>The Times</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 September</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Telegraph&rft.atitle=Stephen+Poliakoff%3A+Anti-semitism+will+always+be+around&rft.date=2009-11-15&rft.aulast=Farndale&rft.aufirst=Nigel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F6570240%2FStephen-Poliakoff-Anti-semitism-will-always-be-around.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArthur+Wellesley%2C+5th+Duke+of+Wellington" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClark2023-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClark2023_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClark2023">Clark 2023</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">£134,262 in 1941 equates to approximately £8,399,000 in 2023, according to calculations based on the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Price_Index_(United_Kingdom)" title="Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom)">Consumer Price Index</a> measure of inflation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClark2023_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClark2023-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2023" class="citation web cs1">Clark, Gregory (2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230401021917/https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/ukearncpi/">"The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)"</a>. MeasuringWorth. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.measuringworth.com/ukearncpi/">the original</a> on 1 April 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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