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Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Anglo-Irish Field Marshal, British prime minister 1828-30, 1834. A printed ticket for admission to Westminster Abbey on the occasion of King George IV's Coronation, 19 July 1821, printed by Dobbs in blue and black with blind-embossed decorative border and crest to lower centre margin, this ticket numbered 3462 and inscribed for a seat in the Lord's Stewards' Box, Poets' Corner, additionally signed and inscribed by the Duke of Wellington, 'For Mr Gerald Wellesley, Wellington', printed signature of Howard Effingham lower right, a few spots, a little split along second vertical fold with a little tear with loss within decorative border, 230 x 253 cm, tipped on to a mount, framed and glazed (Quantity: 1) As Lord High Constable at the Coronation of King George IV the Duke of Wellington is thought to have been issued with five tickets to the Coronation in Westminster Abbey. This one was signed by him, allowing the admission of his twelve-year-old nephew and ward, Gerald Wellesley, to the box of the First Marquess Conyngham, the Lord High Steward of the Royal Household, in Poets' Corner. Gerald Wellesley (1809-1882) was the son of Lady Charlotte Wellesley who was then married to the Duke of Wellington's brother Henry. Soon after Gerald's birth his mother ran off with Wellington's future second in command at Waterloo, Lord Henry Paget and Henry Wellesley refused to acknowledge the child as his own. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington took Gerald into their home and brought him up as their own son. At the time of the Coronation Gerald was in his first year at Eton. After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the church, becoming domestic chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1849, and was Dean of Windsor from 1854 until his death in 1882.