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Duke of Wellington — British Public Servant born on December 30, 1769,

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain's military heroes. In 2002, he was number 15 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons... (wikipedia)