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Wellington was invited to form a ministry in 1834 when Earl
Grey's government fell, but the Duke refused, serving only
as a caretaker before the arrival of Peel as Prime Minister.
During the next decade or more although he remained in the
thick of political action serving at one time as Leader of
the Lords, Commander in Chief and as Chancellor of Oxford
University, he was no longer in the driving seat. Instead,
he assumed the role of elder statesman, never quite managing
to retire.
Whilst at Walmer Castle, his residence as Lord Warden of
the Cinque Ports, he died peacefully in September 1852.
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