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'.

For decades, Glaswegians have capped the Duke of Wellington statue outside the Gallery of Modern Art with a traffic cone. Locals have battled the council over the placement of the cone for years.

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.

At the Institute’s 2023-24 Annual General Meeting, current Chair Sir David Lidington announced that, at the end of his five-year term of office, he would be succeeded by the Duke of Wellington. The ...

Play the game and take sides in the Battle of Waterloo. The battle was fought between the French army, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Duke of Wellington, leader of the Anglo-Allied forces.

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 ...