| HOWARD | Family surname of the 1st Duke of Norfolk, inaugurated 1483 (6) |
| ARTHURWELLESLEY | Actual name of the 1st Duke of Wellington (6,9) |
| APSLEY | ___ House, the home of the first Duke of Wellington, at London's Hyde Park Corner (6) |
| BRONTE | Family surname of three literary sisters from Yorkshire who, between them, wrote novels including Ja |
| PITT | Surname of the 1st Earl of Chatham, (1708-78) |
| THOMAS | Name of several Dukes of Norfolk, including the third, who was an uncle of two wives of King Henry VIII (6,6) |
| YEAGER | Surname of the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in level flight (6) |
| IRON | The ____ Duke, nickname of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington (4) |
| CARUSO | Tenor Enrico ___ was one of the 1st singers to be commercially recorded (6) |
| JOHNOFGAUNT | The 1st Duke of Lancaster; son of Edward III and father of Henry IV (4,2,5) |
| LIONELSACKVILLE | The first Duke of Dorset who was chosen to inform George I of his accession to the throne in 1714 (6,9) |
| IRONDUKE | The 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, was known as 'the ---' (4,4) |
| LUTHER | Surname of German monk, theologian, and church reformer (1483-1546) |
| AVENUES | Word, possibly introduced by John Evelyn, for tree-lined paths or roads, such as those constituting the 72 miles worth laid out by the 1st Duke of Montagu at Boughton (7) |
| ROLLO | Norse chieftain made the first duke of Normandy in 911 by arrangement with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (5) |
| BLENHEIM | Palace built for the 1st Duke of Marlborough(8) |
| PAKENHAM | Kitty, woman who married the 1st Duke of Wellington in Dublin in 1806 (8) |
| SERAPH | Angel of the 1st order |
| NELLGWYN | Royal mistress whose elder son became the first Duke of St Albans (4,4) |
| MARLBOROUGH | The first duke of which, John Churchill, had famous victories over Louis XIV's France (11) |
