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name: "Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington"
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description: "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."
tagline: "British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834 (1769-1852)"
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birthDate: "1769-05-01"
deathDate: "1852-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.