Algernon Greville was president of MCC in 1828, at which time he was also secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He made his first-class debut as a 17-year-old at Lord's in 1816 and in 1819 played ...

The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.