Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington KG, ( born August 21, 1885 † January 4, 1972 ), 1900-1943 Lord Gerald Wellesley, was a British diplomat, soldier, and architect and winner of the Order of the Garter.
Life
Gerald Wellesley was the third son of Lord Arthur Wellesley (later 4th Duke of Wellington ) and Lady Arthur Wellesley (later the Duchess of Wellington, born Kathleen Bulkeley Williams). He was educated at Eton College and married on April 30, 1914 Dorothy Violet Ashton, daughter of Robert Ashton.
He served in 1908 as a diplomat in the diplomatic corps and was in two shades Envoy of the Diplomatic Service in the United Kingdom ( 1910-1917 Third Secretary, Second Secretary from 1917 to 1919 ). In 1921 he was employed as a Fellow at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1935 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. From 1936 to 1943 he was Surveyor of the King 's Works of Art
Gerald Wellesley received the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1939, when he served in the Grenadier Guards. He fought in the Second World War of 1939 to 1945.
In 1943 he succeeded his nephew Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington as the new Duke of Wellington, Earl of Mornington and Prince of Waterloo. Henry's other titles, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, was first to his sister ( Gerald's niece ) Lady Anne Rhys transferred before they ceded it to Gerald in 1949.
From 1944 to 1949 he led the office of Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, and from 1949 to 1960 the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.
In 1951, the Order of the Garter, he was awarded.
Publications
- Gerald, Lord, & John Steegmann: The Iconography of the First Duke of Wellington. Foreword by Philip Guedalla. With 49 Pages of Plates. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1935.
- Gerald Wellesley: The Diary of a Desert Journey. PUTNAM, UK, 1938.
- Francis & The Duke of Wellington ( ed.): THE JOURNAL OF MRS. Arbuthnot 1820-1832. JANUARY 1826 TO JANUARY 1832. 2, Macmillan, Bamford 1950.
- A Selection from the Private Correspondence of the First Duke of Wellington ( 1952)
Architecture projects
Among his projects in architecture includes the reform of the London house of Henry Channon, an Anglo - American Member of Parliament. He also designed a tower for Gerald Tyrwhitt - Wilson.
Family
Gerald Wellesley married on April 30, 1914 Dorothy Violet Ashton (August 21, 1885 - July 11, 1956 ). In 1922 she separated from each other again. Dorothy was the daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire, in turn, was a cousin of 2nd degree by Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde, and his wife Cecilia Dunn -Gardner, later Countess of Scarbrough. Their stepfather was Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough.
Gerald and Dorothy had two children:
- Lady Elizabeth Wellesley, born on December 26, 1918
The marriage failed very quickly. The poet Dorothy Wellesley was either bisexual or lesbian. One family memoir, according to which was written by her granddaughter Lady Jane Wellesley, Dorothy left her family for a relationship with Vita Sackville- West, who wrote an entry about Dorothy Wellesleyfür the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Curiously, Gerald Wellington was engaged before his marriage to Dorothy with the beloved of Sackville-West Violet Trefusis. Dorothy later became the mistress and companion of Hilda Matheson, a prominent producer of the BBC.