2-637-480 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Duke of Wellington, c1842 (1878). Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, known for his defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He later served as Britain's Prime Minister from 1828 to 1830 and again in 1834. From Old and New London Illustrated, Vol IV, by Edward Walford. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1878]