Leeds news on today's date (Sept 16) in 1873.

[Leodian]

The following report is from John Mayhall’s ‘Annals of Yorkshire’:-September 16 1873. “James Wray, aged 88 years, a man of large stature, and possessed to the last of all his faculties, was laid in his last resting place at Aberford, near Leeds. He was one of the few remaining veterans who fought under “The Iron Duke.” He had two medals, the Waterloo and the Peninsular”.That report has a connection with my thread of September 11 2012 about news on September 11 1872 in which it reported the death that day in Pudsey of William Varley aged 79 who had also been engaged (among other battles) in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. “The Iron Duke” was Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington. The Wellesley Hotel on Wellington Street was named so to honour him.