The Guards formed part of the Household Division, the elite of the military that provided security for the monarch.

[3] Throughout his career Wellesley saw no combat action: his duties were largely ceremonial as part of the Household Guard.

The estate also included four advowsons; Wellesley had the duty, right, and obligation to select the chief clergyman of those parishes.

[7] Wellesley died at Ewhurst Park (House), Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 18 June (Waterloo Day) 1934, aged eighty-five, and was buried three days later at Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire, the home conferred on the Dukes of Wellington.

[10] He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[11] and was invested by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 8 August 1902.

[14] On 24 October 1872, he married Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams, daughter of Captain Robert Griffith Williams (brother of Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet) and wife Mary Anne Geale (daughter of Piers Geale, of Dublin).