Who was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, who said "Publish and be damned!" to an English publisher and editor with something of a reputation as a pornographer?
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the first rank of Britain's military heroes.
John James Knox The Hon. John James Knox, known as James Knox, (3 April 1790 – 9 July 1856) was an Irish Tory politician from an aristocratic family based near Dungannon in County Tyrone. After a career as an officer in the British Army, he sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 1830s as the Member of Parliament (MP) for his family's pocket borough of Dungannon.