Question: Who was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, who said "Publish and be damned!" to an English publisher and editor with something of a reputation as a pornographer?
Sentence (from "John Joseph Stockdale"): He sought to blackmail a number of public figures over the "memoirs" of society courtesan Harriette Wilson, drawing the notorious retort from the Duke of Wellington, "Publish and be damned!"
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