Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington

[Idaho Kid]

On the day that World War II broke out, the Duke of Wellington was quoted as blaming the conflict on "anti-appeasers and the fucking Jews".

Well, I was about to be disappointed in my research on "fucking Jews" until I came across this nugget"

Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_5th_Duke_of_Wellington



He attended Eton between 1890 and 1895, and later attended Trinity College at Cambridge. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment, and in January 1900 joined the Grenadier Guards as Second lieutenant. With the Grenadier Guards, he fought in the Boer War in 1900, and later in World War I.

In 1934 he succeeded to the Dukedom; he was also a Justice of the Peace.

Wellington married Hon. Lilian Maud Glen Coats, the daughter of the George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar in 1909. They had two children

    Lady Anne Wellesley (1910–1998)
    Captain Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington (1912–1943)

The Duke was a supporter of several far right-wing causes. He was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship from 1935 and served as President of the Liberty Restoration League, which was described by Inspector Pavey (an ex-Scotland Yard detective employed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to infiltrate the far right) as being anti-semitic. When Archibald Maule Ramsay formed the 'Right Club' in 1939, Wellington chaired its early meetings. Ramsay, describing the Right Club, boasted that "The main objective was to oppose and expose the activities of organised Jewry." On the day that World War II broke out, the Duke of Wellington was quoted as blaming the conflict on "anti-appeasers and the fucking Jews".

Notes

The London Gazette: no. 27154. p. 288. 16 January 1900.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/126784

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6570240/Stephen-Poliakoff-Anti-semitism-will-always-be-around.html