Richard Dighton - D4721
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance')
by and published by Richard Dighton, reissued by Thomas McLean
published August 1818
NPG D4721
Portraits in Profile: the Dighton Family
Richard Dighton
1796?-1880
NPG D4721
'The Master General of the Ordinance', Arthur Wellesley,
1st Duke of Wellington
(1769-1852), published 1819
Soldier and statesman; created Duke of Wellington, 1814; victor
of Waterloo, 1815; Prime Minister, 1828-30 and 1834.
After the withdrawal of the Allied army from France in 1818, Wellington returned to England. On 26 December he was appointed Master General of the Ordnance, a position which carried a seat in Lord Liverpool's Tory cabinet. He is depicted wearing the Waterloo medal and the Star of the Order of the Bath.
