Wellesley, Arthur, (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman

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Alternative name(s):	Wellington, 1st Duke (Also known as)
Surname:	Wellesley
Forenames:	Arthur
Gender:	Male
Date:	1769-1852
Title:	1st Duke of Wellington
Biography:	ODNB link for Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275311 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P130993 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Arthur Wellesley

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1826-1963: Constitution Arch, Constitution Hill, and statues of the 1st Duke of Wellington.	The National Archives, Kew
2	1814-1822: Foreign Office: General Correspondence before 1906: Continent Conferences	The National Archives, Kew	FO 92
3	1834: letter rel to the University of London charter	London University: Senate House Library	MS1253	See Annual Return 2019
4	1790-1852: political, military and official papers	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085 See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
5	1815: Waterloo Despatch	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 69850
6	1807-52: political corresp	University of Southampton Library	MS 69	NRA 35038
7	1815-50: corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63090
8	personal, family, legal and estate papers,	Stratfield Saye House		NRA 1286 Wellesley
9	1796-1810: corresp and papers rel to India	British Library: Asian and African Studies	IOR/H/457-479
10	1800: copies of letters to civil and military officers in Madras (1 vol)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 29238
11	1809-14: letters, papers and despatches	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 64131
12	1801-05: letter book of corresp with Residents at Poona	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur E 216	NRA 27481
13	1801-05: letters (14) from various individuals (1 vol)	State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library		See Catalogue of MSS, series B, p73
14	manuscripts	Walmer Castle		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
15	1809-1853: misc corresp	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9815-9933, 10279-10695, 10960-10999 Passim
16	1815-46: corresp with 4th Earl of Aberdeen	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43056-60
17	1828: corresp with 1st Marquess of Anglesey	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D619/26A	NRA 10 Paget
18	1828-45: corresp with 1st Marquess of Anglesey	Collection held privately: enquiries to Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections		NRA 10 Paget
19	1832-48: letters (14) to Lord Ashburton	Baring Archive	136.1, 189	NRA 30566 Baring Bros
20	1813-33: corresp with 3rd Earl Bathurst	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 57	NRA 20952 See HMC [76] Bathurst MSS
21	1847: letters from GWP Bentinck and (undated) to Sir Alexander George Woodford	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 136/B/6262-6425, C/75	NRA 26325 Newdegate
22	1809-28: corresp with Lord William Bentinck	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	PwJd5346-408	NRA 7628 Cavendish-Bentinck
23	1810-11: corresp with Viscount Beresford	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 21504, 36306
24	1809-12: letters (39) to Viscount Beresford	Huntington Library		See Guide, pp362-63
25	1810-13: letters (11) to Viscount Beresford	North Yorkshire County Record Office	ZBA	See Guide no 1 1985
26	1829-30: corresp with Lord John De La Poer Beresford	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D664	NRA 19564 Beresford
27	1810: corresp with Vice Admiral Berkeley rel to naval and military co-operation	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 1083/3
28	1834: letters to William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 63084
29	1800-44: letters (6) to General Lord De Blaquiere	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection	NRA 38887 Forster
30	1843: military corresp with Sir Edward Blakeney and others	McGill University Archives		NRA 5379 Hardinge
31	1833-51: corresp with 1st Baron Brougham	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections		See HMC Prime ministers papers 1801-1902, 1968
32	1832-45: letters to 5th Duke of Buccleuch, Lord and Lady Montagu	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS859	NRA 10169 Douglas-Home
33	1795-1845: corresp with 1st and 2nd Marquesses Camden	Kent History and Library Centre	U840/C135-36, 266	NRA 8410
34	1814-27: corresp with George Canning	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds		NRA 9205 Canning
35	1805-21: corresp with Viscount Castlereagh	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3030	NRA 12865 Stewart
36	1821-54: corresp with 1st and 2nd Earls Cathcart and with Sir George Cathcart,	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.12686	NRA 3946
37	letters to 2nd Earl of Clare and his mother	Keele University Library Special Collections and Archives		See HMC Prime ministers papers 1801-1902, 1968
38	1811-37: letters (39) to Sir Henry Clinton	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library		See HMC Prime ministers papers 1801-1902, 1968
39	1810-1846: military and personal corresp with Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole and Lady Frances Cole	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	Cole	NRA 39457 Cole
40	c1830-40: personal corresp with Christopher Collins, confidential servant, and related papers	University of Southampton Library	MS 69	NRA 35038
41	1801-16: corresp with Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833)	University of Southampton Library	MS308	See Annual Return 2001
42	1810-46: letters to Sir Charles Colville and Viscount Colville	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS39	NRA 10112
43	c1817-38: letters to 1st Marquess of Conyngham, his wife and 2nd Marquess	Collection held privately: enquiries to Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)		NRA 6509 Conyngham
44	1798-1841: corresp with 1st Baron Cottesloe, with related papers	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
45	1810: letters (copies) from 1st Baron Cowley (1 vol)	The National Archives	FO 519
46	1832-52: letters to JW Croker	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 38078
47	1822-48: corresp with Duke of Cumberland	Niedersachsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in Hannover	Dep 103	NRA 28404 Ernest Augustus
48	1822-51: corresp with 9th and 11th Earls and Marquess of Dalhousie	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD45	NRA 17164 See NRA(S)0805
49	1835-52: corresp with Earl de Grey	Bedfordshire Archives	L 29/700/28, 30/18/62	NRA 6283 Wrest Park
50	1838-52: corresp with 14th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 133	NRA 20084
51	1825-48: letters (10) to the Drummond family	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 14022 Drummond See HMC File: Drummond, Walden
52	letters to Helen, Countess of Dufferin	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)		See Report,1954-59, p41
53	1810-14: corresp (copies) with Sir Benjamin D'Urban	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	7805/46	NRA 23422 D'Urban
54	c1829-52: corresp with Thomas Edmonston	Shetland Museum and Archives	D.14	NRA 13501
55	1820-1837: letters to 1st Earl of Eldon	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	HMC	NRA 24582 Scott
56	1828-30: corresp with 1st Earl of Ellenborough	The National Archives	PRO30/9
57	1835-52: corresp with 1st Earl of Ellenborough	The National Archives	PRO 30/12
58	letters to Cuthbert Ellison	Surrey History Centre	319	NRA 777
59	1827-48: letters (207) to Tower Major JH Erlington	Huntington Library		See Guide, pp362-63
60	1799-1849: corresp with Maurice Fitzgerald	Collection held privately: enquiries to Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	T3075	NRA 29433 FitzGerald
61	1798-1841: papers and corresp with Sir WH Fremantle	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
62	1837-46: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44086-835 passim
63	1827-28: letters (24) to Viscount Goderich,	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/MH	NRA 1
64	1825-46: corresp with Viscount Goderich	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 40306-877
65	c1804-09: corresp with Sir James Willoughby Gordon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 49481
66	1819-50: letters to Henry Goulburn, with related papers	Surrey History Centre	319	NRA 777
67	1839-1850: corresp with Sir James Graham	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Dep. 9374	NRA 2634 Graham See Annual Return 1994
68	1826-1834: corresp with 1st Earl Granville,	British Library, Manuscript Collections		See Former ref PRO 30/29
69	1806-16: letters to Lord Grenville	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58990
70	letters (35) to Grenville family	Huntington Library		See Guide, p172
71	1829-41: letters (72) to AF Greville	West Sussex Record Office	Goodwood MSS	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [42a]
72	1839-52: corresp (191 items) with 3rd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	GRE/B131/1-7	NRA 6228 Grey
73	1833-43: corresp with Colonel John Gurwood, editor of his Dispatches	University of Southampton Library	MS 69/3/1-33	NRA 35038
74	1837-50: corresp with GW Hall and Francis Jeune	Oxford University: Pembroke College Archives	1/4/16-21	NRA 29439 Oxford Univ Pembroke
75	1834-37: letters to RD Hampden	Oxford University: Oriel College Archives		See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
76	1823-55: letters (60) to 1st Viscount Hardinge	McGill University Archives		NRA 7539 Hardinge
77	1842-48: corresp with 1st Viscount Hardinge and others mainly rel to Ireland	Kent History and Library Centre	(VIII, IX) 143, 166-67	NRA 5379 Hardinge
78	1809-39: letters (13) to 1st Earl of Harrowby etc	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust	vols 16,18,19,23,26	NRA 1561 Ryder
79	1850-1852: letters to Harriet and Elizabeth Frances Hatton	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	HMC	NRA 39457 Cole
80	1812-52: corresp with John Charles Herries	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 57368	NRA 4798
81	1817: letters to Colonel Hervey	Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	DD5/11/1/4	NRA 12923 Dukes Leeds
82	c1813-52: letters to Sir John Hill	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		NRA 44729
83	1808-40: corresp with Sir Rowland Hill	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 35059-60
84	1838: corresp with William Holmes rel to Wellington's health	University of Southampton Library	MS 272	See Annual Return 1996
85	1812-45: corresp with Sir Alexander Hope and GW Hope	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD364	NRA 10172 Hope See NRA(S)1021
86	1813-14: letters to 4th Earl of Hopetoun	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS888	NRA 17684 Hope
87	1818-47: corresp with John Robert Hume	Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh	GD 1
88	1810-28: corresp with W Huskisson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38738-56
89	1821-49: letters to Sarah, Countess of Jersey	The London Archives: City of London	405, 435	NRA 935
90	1824-30: letters to Sir Andrew Leith-Hay	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD225	NRA 10212 Leith-Hay See NRA(S)0132
91	1814-34: corresp with Prince Lieven	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 47259
92	1807-45: letters to Earls of Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 72	NRA 21672
93	1807-40: letters to Earls of Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 38196
94	1815-39: letters to William and Louisa Lloyd	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Aston Hall Vol 3 nos 1099-1104, Vol 6 nos 6818-6845	NRA 30036 Aston Hall
95	c1822-52: corresp with 3rd Marquess of Londonderry	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3030	NRA 12865 Stewart
96	1809-50: corresp with 3rd Marquess of Londonderry	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	D/Lo	NRA 11528 Vane-Tempest-Stewart
97	1829: letters to 1st Earl of Lonsdale	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L	NRA 17777 Lowther
98	1830-46: letters (11) mainly to Lord Lyndhurst	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library		NRA 20697 Copley
99	1810-38: corresp with 1st Baron Lynedoch	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3606-21
100	1834-39: letters (10) to Sir John and Lady Macdonald	Baring Archive		NRA 11212 Baring
101	1812-46: corresp with Frederick Maitland, with other copy corresp	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	7902/12-14	NRA 23388 Maitland
102	c1815-23: corresp with 3rd Viscount Melbourne	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 60411-15	NRA 23026
103	1824-38: letters to 2nd Viscount Melville	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41084
104	1808-30: letters to 2nd Viscount Melville	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD51	NRA 10188 Dundas
105	1807-17: corresp with Lord Mornington	Gwent Archives		NRA 28994
106	1800-04: letters (24) to Sir Thomas Munro	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 29239
107	1799-1803: letters to Sir Thomas Munro	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 151	NRA 27541
108	1808-39: letters to Sir George Murray	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Adv MSS 46.1.1-47.7.4
109	1824-45: corresp with Sir George Murray	The National Archives	WO 80
110	1825-48: corresp with Sir William Napier, with other copy corresp	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett c 250	NRA 13979 Napier
111	1825-45: corresp with 4th and 5th Dukes of Newcastle	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
112	1809, 1832-52: letters mainly to the North family	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS North	NRA 837 North
113	1824-46: letters to Duchess of Northumberland	North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Hawarden (formerly Flintshire Record Office)	D/BP	NRA 26972
114	1820-41: corresp with 3rd Viscount Palmerston	University of Southampton Library	MS 62	NRA 12889
115	1822-46: letters (8 vols) to Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40306-10, 40549-61
116	letters to Henry Phillpotts	Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives	ED/11	NRA 25909 Phillpotts
117	corresp with Earl of Powis	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Powis Castle	NRA 20151 Herbert
118	1815-52: corresp with Lord Raglan	Gwent Archives		NRA 28994
119	1837-51: corresp (48 items) with 1st Earl of Redesdale	Gloucestershire Archives	D2002/5/1/2	NRA 23794 Freeman-Mitford
120	1807-29: corresp with 4th Duke of Richmond:	National Library of Ireland	MSS 58-75
121	1832-42: letters (16) to 5th Duke of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	vol 3	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
122	1814-52: corresp with Lord John Russell	The National Archives	PRO30/22
123	1850-52: letters to Marchioness of Salisbury	Hatfield House Library and Archives		See A Great Man's Friendship, ed Lady Burghclere, 1927
124	c1800-04: letters (1 vol) to James George Scott	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur D 828
125	1819-33: letters (19) to 1st Viscount Sidmouth:	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)		See HMC Prime ministers papers 1801-1902, 1968
126	1830-51: corresp with 5th Earl of Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C406	NRA 25095
127	1836-51: letters (84) to Emily, Countess of Stanhope	Lincolnshire Archives	RA/4/AD	NRA 6329
128	1802-3: letters (21) mainly to Lt-General James Stuart	Cleveland Public Library		NRA 26059 White
129	1815-22: corresp with Baron Stuart De Rothesay:	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3840, 6160-6246, 9818, 10997, 15386-90
130	1844-48: letters (30) to Benjamin Symons	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 193	NRA 10089 Symons
131	1828-30: corresp (13 items) with George Tierney and his father	Hampshire Archives	31M70	NRA 14626 Tierney
132	letters to Lord Tweeddale	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 96	NRA 27520
133	1838-1840: letters to David Urquhart	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 11691 Urquhart
134	1799-1801: corresp with Alexander Walker	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.13605
135	1841-52: letters to James Walker re Dover harbour	Institution of Civil Engineers		NRA 16921 Civil Engineers
136	c1828-48: letters to Lady Wellesley	Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	DD5/11/V	NRA 12923 Dukes Leeds
137	1799-1842: corresp with Marquess Wellesley	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 13669-74, 13772-78, 37288-315, 37415
138	1831-44: corresp with 1st Baron Wharncliffe	Sheffield City Archives		NRA 1077
139	1829-35: letters (10) to Sir David Wilkie	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Annual Report 1981-82 p52
140	1823-29: letters to Sir RJ Wilmot-Horton	Derbyshire Record Office	D3155	NRA 27876 Wilmot-Horton
141	1821-41: corresp with BD Wyatt rel to Apsley House	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	MSL/1996/2	NRA 38891 V & A Museum
142	1840-44: corresp (c100 items) with Rev Philip Wynter	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. c. 6071-6073, d. 2916, e. 3047	NRA 27382
143	1808-18: letters to Charles Yorke	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	April-June 1969	NRA 5235 Cornwall RO misc
144	corresp rel to Tralee Borough	Unknown location		NRA 478 Rowan
145	1832-38: letters on Hants Lieutenancy matters	Unknown location		NRA 433 Pollen
146	1809-14: copies of Peninsula and Waterloo despatches	Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch	E18/740/7 (pp184-205)	NRA 41001 Bunbury
147	1809-14: letters, papers and despatches from Peninsular War (1 vol)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 64131
148	1820-48: misc corresp	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	18H	NRA 24153 Wellesley
149	1810-11: corresp rel to Cadiz	Badminton Muniments	Fm	NRA 6282 Somerset
150	1806-50: misc letters (18)	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See HMC visit, JRS 1992
151	1810-47: letters (20) on Scottish garrisons and the Peninsular War	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections		See Accessions to Repositories 1975
152	1808-51: political and military letters	McGill University Archives		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
153	1899: letter rel to pensions	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 597