On 9 January 1828, shortly after the death of Prime Minister George Canning in August 1827, and after Lord Goderich’s failed attempt to form a government, King George IV asked Wellington to serve as Prime Minister and form a Tory cabinet. Image: Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1814). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Sean Grass, “On the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 14 September 1852″