Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Hon. Catherine „Kitty“ Sarah Dorothea Pakenham (Ehename: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, * 14. Januar 1773; † 24. oder 25. April 1831 in Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, Mayfair, London, England) war die Tochter von Edward Michael Pakenham, 2. Baron Longford (1743–1792), und Catherine Rowley († 1816).
Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (née Pakenham; 14 January 1773 – 24 April 1831), known before her marriage as Kitty Pakenham, was the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, by Thomas Lawrence. Wellington first courted Catherine (Kitty) Pakenham in Dublin in 1792. He was a debt-ridden 23-year-old captain of light dragoons. Kitty was the 19-year-old daughter of the Earl of Longford, an Irish peer.
14. Jan. 2019 · Learn about the life and marriage of Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley, also known as Kitty Pakenham, the wife of the famous British general and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Discover how they met, why they married, and how they lived apart despite having two sons.
The marriage of Arthur Wellesley to Catherine Sarah Dorothea Pakenham, third daughter of the Earl of Longford, took place on 10 April, 1796 and may be the strangest marriage I’ve come across in the annals of Georgian, Regency and Victorian alliances.
During this period he met and fell in love with Catherine Pakenham (1773-1831). In 1793 he proposed, but was denied by her brother, who considered Wellington’s prospects insufficient. This humiliation triggered a new resolve in the young man, who immediately gave up music – reportedly burning his violin – and committed himself fully to ...
In 1806, after returning from eight years of service with the British Army in India, Wellesley married Catherine Pakenham, whom he had known from his formative years in Ireland. It soon sadly became apparent that they were ill matched - not least because the couple had neither seen nor spoken to each other during his time overseas. Shortly ...
