Education
He attended Eton between 1890 and 1895, and later attended Trinity College at Cambridge.
He attended Eton between 1890 and 1895, and later attended Trinity College at Cambridge.
He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment, and in January 1900 joined the Grenadier Guards as Second lieutenant. With the Grenadier Guards, he fought in the Boer War in 1900, but resigned his commission in 1903. He returned to active service as a temporary reserve second lieutenant in 1915, during World War I, and relinquished his commission in 1919, still a second lieutenant.
In 1934 he succeeded to the Dukedom.
He was also a Justice of the Peace. Wellington married Honorary
Lilian Maud Glen Coats, the daughter of the George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar in 1909. They had two children
Lady Anne Wellesley (1910–1998)
Captain Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (1912–1943)
The Duke was a supporter of several far right-wing causes.
When Archibald Maule Ramsay formed the "Right Club" in 1939, Wellington chaired its early meetings
Ramsay, describing the Right Club, boasted that "The main objective was to oppose and expose the activities of organised Jewry." On the day that World World War II broke out, the Duke of Wellington was quoted as blaming the conflict on "anti-appeasers and the fucking Jews".
He was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship from 1935 and served as President of the Liberty Restoration League, which was described by Inspector Pavey (an ex-Scotland Yard detective employed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to infiltrate the far right) as being anti-semitic.