# Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

> The man who beat Napoleon at Waterloo — and then spent the next thirty-seven years trying to beat back political reform in Britain. Wellington came home a field marshal and left Parliament a rearguard Conservative, proof that genius on the battlefield doesn't always translate.

*British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1769-05-01
- **Died:** 1852-09-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born into the Protestant Ascendancy in Dublin in 1769, Wellesley was commissioned as an ensign in 1787 and spent his early career as aide-de-camp in Ireland while serving in the Irish House of Commons. Sent to India as a colonel, he ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1799, then crushed the Maratha Confederacy at Assaye in 1803 as a major general. His reputation was secured in the Peninsular War, where victory at Vitoria in 1813 earned him promotion to field marshal and, after Napoleon's first exile, a dukedom. In 1815, commanding a British-led coalition alongside Blücher's Prussians, he delivered the final blow at Waterloo. He turned to politics afterward: prime minister from 1828 to 1830, he oversaw Catholic Relief but dug in against the Reform Act of 1832, spending his last years as a Tory lion in the House of Lords until his death in 1852.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 67.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.2 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 27.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 1.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Early Modern Era

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