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\"8th Duke of Wellington\" Valerian Wellesley Signed Letterhead:
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Up for sale a RARE! "8th Duke of Wellington" Valerian Wellesley Hand Signed Letterhead Dated 1987. 

1943 and 1972, was a senior British peer and a brigadier in the British Army. His main residence was Stratfield Saye House in Hampshire. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1972 until 1999, losing his seat by

the House of Lords Act. Wellington

was born in Rome, Italy, on 2 July 1915, the son of Lord Gerald

Wellesley, future 7th Duke of Wellington, by his wife Dorothy

Violet, daughter of Robert Ashton. He had one younger sister, the

socialite Lady Elizabeth Clyde, whose son

is the actor and musician Jeremy Clyde. At the time of Wellington's birth, his

father Gerald was

the third son of the 4th Duke of Wellington, with little prospect of succeeding

to the family's estates and titles. Wellington was 28 when his first

cousin Henry, the

6th Duke, was killed in action aged 31 while serving in Italy during

the Second World War. Wellington's father then became the 7th Duke, and

Wellington himself came to be known by the courtesy title Marquess of Douro. He was

known by this moniker between 1943 and 1972, when he became 8th Duke upon the

death of his father. Wellington attended Eton before going up to New College, Oxford. Wellington was

commissioned a second lieutenant in

the Territorial Army in

1936,[2] and was commissioned with the same rank (on

probation) in the British Army Reserve in 1939. In 1940, he was given a full commission as a

second lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards

Regiment, with the service number 68268. He served in the Second World War with the 1st

Household Cavalry Regiment in the Middle East and Italy, during

which time he was awarded the Military Cross,[7] and promoted to the war the war, the 1st Household Cavalry Regiment disbanded, and he

returned to Royal Horse Guards, where he was promoted to lieutenant in

1946, and advanced to the rank of captain later that year. He received

successive promotions to major in 1951, 1954, rising to command of his regiment. Seeing

service in Cyprus between 1956

and 1958,[6] he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1958. He

then moved to the Household Cavalry Regiment, which he began commanding in 1959.

Promoted to colonel in 1960, he

commanded the 22nd Armoured

Brigade (1960–1961), served as Commander, Royal Armoured Corps

in the I(BR) Corps of

the British Army of the Rhine,

and became defence attaché to Spain in 1964. He retired

from the Army in 1968 and was granted the honorary rank of brigadier.

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