Wellington Monument may refer to any one of the monuments to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a leading British political and military figure of the 19th Century, particularly noted for his defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo.
Among the monuments are:
- Wellington Monument, Dublin
- Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner, London
- Wellington College, Berkshire, in Crowthorne, Berkshire, the UK national monument to Wellington
- Wellington Monument, London, at Hyde Park Corner, a colossal statue of Achilles by Richard Westmacott
- Wellington Monument, Somerset in the Blackdown Hills, near Wellington in Somerset
- Wellington Monument, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
- Wellington Statue, Aldershot
- Wellington Statue, Glasgow
- Wellington's Column in Liverpool
- a monument in St Paul's Cathedral, London where he is buried
- a monument in his birthplace in Trim, County Meath, Ireland
- Duke of Wellington Commemorative Column, outside Stratfield Saye House, the Duke's Hampshire residence
Famous quotes containing the words wellington and/or monument:
“To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering ... is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
—Arthur Mellen Wellington (1847–1895)
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,—a stone to a bone? “Here lies,”M”Here lies”;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)