Account book of Sir Robert Williams Travelling expenses still a big item; also the education of his children at Clifton, and especially the rather expensive holiday he gave them at Weymouth. In July, 1818, appears an item of £1.10.0. he paid to a clergyman and clerk for christening his third son Arthur Wellesley, so called, no doubt, in honour of the Duke of Wellington (he became a Major in the 10th Hussars, and died in 891). This christening in 1818 disproves the Pedigrees that he was born in 1817 1818 - April 1819