List of monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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The following is a list in chronological order of monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), a leading British political and military figure of the 19th century, particularly noted for his defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815:

List of monuments[]

Wellington astride Copenhagen his charger statue on Round Hill, Aldershot.
  • Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot, originally at Hyde Park Corner, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1846)[7] In 1838 a proposal to build a statue of Wellington resulted in the building of a giant statue of him on his horse Copenhagen, placed above the Wellington Arch at Constitution Hill in London directly outside Apsley House, his former London home. Completed in 1846, the enormous scale of the 40 ton, 30 feet (9 m) high monument resulted in its removal in 1883, and the following year it was transported to Aldershot where it still stands near the Royal Garrison Church.
  • A statue of Wellington by the sculptor Thomas Milnes at Woolwich Arsenal, which now stands in Wellington Park (1848)[8]
Wellington statue, in the East End of Edinburgh, Scotland
Engraving of Dublin's Wellington Testimonial including the never completed equestrian statue

The Duke's horse, Copenhagen, has a monument over his grave at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire.

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  7. ^ "The Duke of Wellington by Matthew Cotes Wyatt". The Victorian Web. 2012. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  8. ^ "Duke of Wellington, by Thomas Milnes". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
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  14. ^ "The military link continues..." Where We Are & Local History Brecon. Brecon Town Council. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
  15. ^ "1861 – Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park, Dublin". Buildings of Ireland. Archiseek. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
  16. ^ "Duke of Wellington Commemorative Column". Art & Architecture. The Courtauld Institute. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
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  18. ^ "Baslow". Discovering Derbyshire and the Peak District. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
  19. ^ The Green Park Arch, Wellington Place. Victorian London, Originally published in The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks and Scenery of the Great Metropolis, 1896 . Accessed September 2014
  20. ^ Welford, John (2013-01-15). "Alfred Stevens and the Wellington Memorial in St Pauls Cathedral London". Artists and Artwork. Fine Arts 360. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
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