British Politics w/o Waterloo Wellington

We've talked before about how Europe would be different without Napoleon's Hundred Days Campaign in 1815, but one aspect of this that hasn't gotten much attention is how it significantly added to the legend of the victorious commander, Arthur Wellesley, who went on to have a very significant impact on British politics over the following two decades. So my questions for this thread -- first, without Waterloo, would Wellington's rise in the Tory Party have been less successful than OTL? And if so, how would this reduced influence have changed parliamentary politics and policy during this period (1815-35)?
 
We've talked before about how Europe would be different without Napoleon's Hundred Days Campaign in 1815, but one aspect of this that hasn't gotten much attention is how it significantly added to the legend of the victorious commander, Arthur Wellesley, who went on to have a very significant impact on British politics over the following two decades. So my questions for this thread -- first, without Waterloo, would Wellington's rise in the Tory Party have been less successful than OTL? And if so, how would this reduced influence have changed parliamentary politics and policy during this period (1815-35)?
Wellington was already considered very highly in Britain, and if I remember correctly was one of the British reps at the Congress of Vienna.

I suspect a lack of Waterloo would not impact his career that much.
 
Waterloo was the cherry on the top, giving him the added cachet as "the only man to best Napoleon in the field" (which wasn't really true but that's popular history for you) but by 1814 he was already the most prominent living British commander with a considerable political weight.
 
Waterloo was the cherry on the top, giving him the added cachet as "the only man to best Napoleon in the field"... but by 1814 he was already the most prominent living British commander with a considerable political weight.
Is it possible that taking away this cherry on top is enough to delay Wellesley’s rise to Prime Minister? For example, if following the retirement of Liverpool, the Canning-ites still collapse from within, could Sir Robert Peel be considered the more natural leader of the ultra-Tories and become Prims Minister earlier?
 
Is it possible that taking away this cherry on top is enough to delay Wellesley’s rise to Prime Minister? For example, if following the retirement of Liverpool, the Canning-ites still collapse from within, could Sir Robert Peel be considered the more natural leader of the ultra-Tories and become Prims Minister earlier?

They'll be butterflies galore by that point but in OTL he was the most prominent ultra by a considerable margin, no Waterloo won't butterfly that but it might make the gap between him and Canning small enough that events could allow Canning to overleap him.
 
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