Arthur Wellesley

Arthur Wellesley (more commonly known by his title, the Duke of Wellington) first met the Second Doctor when the Doctor and his friend Serena thwarted an attempt by the mysterious Players to blow up Wellesley and Lord Nelson at the same time, during a brief meeting between the two when awaiting an appointment with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street. After this, the three met again during a ball that took place before the Battle of Waterloo, Serena sacrificing herself to save Wellesley from an assassin. During the subsequent battle against Napoléon Bonaparte, the Doctor played a vital role in carrying messages through the battlefield by posing as Napoleon himself, exploiting the superficial similarity between himself and the Emperor. After the combat, Wellesley remarked to the Doctor that "the only thing sadder than a battle lost, is a battle won" (PDA: World Game). The Fourth Doctor later considered how right he was, recognising that the only thing harder than losing is winning and realising who you had lost to reach that point. (EDA: The Eight Doctors) Wellesley fought alongside Oliver Blazington at the battle. (NSA: The Eye of the Jungle) During a brief visit to 1816, the Doctor met with Wellesley again and took a trip to Brighton with him, where they meet the Prince Regent, who convinced the Doctor to invest some money he had recently won while gambling in a bank that a friend of his had just founded. (PDA: World Game)

In a history project for school, Clyde Langer and Luke Smith were required to show the battle strategies of Wellington and Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while playing a game of Waterloo on Mr Smith. Luke, impersonating Napoleon, referred to Clyde as "monsieur Duke". (SJA: The Last Sontaran)

In the years after the Napoleonic Wars, he served as British Prime Minister. In 1851, by which time he was an elderly man reaching the end of his life, he met the Eighth Doctor's companion Charley Pollard at the Great Exhibition in London. He took an immediate liking to Charley, who was initially unaware of his identity, and permitted her to call him by his first name over the objections of his assistant, Mr Fazackerly. (BFA: Other Lives)