Entries for the tag ‘Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)’
Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman, remembered in part for his role in the repeal of the Corn Laws. 
- 28 July 1809: The Napoleonic career of Richard Beckett of the Coldstream Guards, Meanwood (Leeds), and the MCC, who fell today at Talavera (Toledo)
- 1 August 1813: The 51st Foot wear bay leaves, not white roses, on Minden (now Yorkshire) Day, as they drive the French back over the Pyrenees
- 5 March 1829: Henry Burton of Hotham tells a rowdy public meeting at Beverley to petition parliament against Catholic emancipation and preserve “the Protestant constitution”
- 7 May 1831: In a spoof letter to the new and liberal William IV, a Sheffield metalworker expresses, in dialect, his hopes for the Reform Act and the election then underway
- 31 July 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding
- 15 September 1872: Death of “York’s last Waterloo hero”
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