Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . tion, says Dr. Hosack, was not confined to the country he immediately ben-efited by his services. In the literary circles and in the scientific institutionsoi Europe, his name was familiarly known as among the most eminent men ofhis day. It was an evidence of the hieh estimation in which he was held, thathe was elected an honorary mem
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . tion, says Dr. Hosack, was not confined to the country he immediately ben-efited by his services. In the literary circles and in the scientific institutionsoi Europe, his name was familiarly known as among the most eminent men ofhis day. It was an evidence of the hieh estimation in which he was held, thathe was elected an honorary member of many of the learned societies of GreatBritain and of the continent of Europe, and that he held an extensive corre-spondence with some of the most distinguished men of the age. He was anhonorary member of the Linnaean and the Horticultural Societies of London,and of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh ; and was in habits of correspond-ence with the late Sir James Edward Smith, the learned president of the first,and with Mr. Knight and Mr. J. Sabirie, the able officers of the horticulturalinstitution. Governor Clinton was twice married, first to Miss Maria Franklin, and, manyyears after her decease, to Miss Catharine Jones. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 473. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. ARTHUR , duke of Wellington, the fourth son of the second earluf Mornington, was born at Dangan castle, in the county of Meath, Ireland,May 1, 1769. He received the first part of his education, at Eton school, nearLondon, whence he proceeded to the military college of Angiers, in thedepartment of the Maine and Loire, in France, then directed by Piunerol, themodern Vauban. In 1787, when in his eighteenth year, Arthur Wesley (forthat was the form of his name he at first adopted) was gazetted to an ensigncyin the seventy-third regiment, and on the following Christmas-day was pro-moted to a lieutenancy in the seventy-sixth. In the succeeding month, hechanged into the forty-first regiment, and on
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