The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.

Though the Duke did not pretend to be a highly educated man, he had a real respect for books, and made resolute attempts to supervise the education of his son and heir. By Elizabeth Longford. Like ...

From 1829 he was of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a post later held by Sir Winston Churchill. Here, Wellington attends to his correspondence under the gaze of his greatest enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte ...