Tatler cover - Lord and Lady George Wellesley and son

Lord George Wellesley, who was a wing commander and collected an M.C. in the First World War, pictured in his pilot officer's uniform in 1940, together with his wife and only son, Richard, who was a lance-sergeant in an anti-aircraft battery. Lady Wellesley is looking very chic in her long black dress and percher hat! Wellesley was born on 29 July 1889, the son of Colonel Lord Arthur Wellesley (later the 4th Duke of Wellington), and Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams. His great-grandfather was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.Wellesley married Louise Nesta Pamela FitzGerald, the widow of his older brother Richard, in New York, on March 12, 1917.She was the daughter of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Baronet, and Amelia Catherine Bischoffsheim. Richard, a Captain in the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action on October 29, 1914. Louise died in 1947 after which Lord George Wellesley remarried

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