The Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) - Prime minister (1828-1830), military leader, and Conservative politician. Wellington has the peculiar honor of being the only person in London to whom two bronze equestrian statues have been erected, one of them cast from captured French guns. Other monuments to the leader included the arch at Hyde Park Corner, a stone figure, and a huge and ugly bronze statue at Hyde Park (now removed and replaced by one of the equestrians). A Frenchman who saw it is said to have exclaimed, "We have been avenged!"
Thomas Caryle attacks the statue of Wellington, 1846.
Management secrets of the Duke of Wellington
About Matthew Cotes Wyatt, sculptor and inadvertant avenger

West India Docks - Opened in 1802, these were the first and finest of the protected, enclosed docks of the 19th century, essential for London's growth as a port.
More about the West India Docks

The Difference Dictionary was first published
in slightly different form in Science Fiction Eye, Issue #8.
Text copyright 1990, 1996, 2000, 2003,
by Eileen K. Gunn.