If you want to know how to make beef wellington, I expect you’ll also be curious about how it got its name. This tasty recipe is a traditional British dish and named after Arthur Wellesley, the 1st duke of wellington, who won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Many people like to serve beef at the holidays and this easy beef wellington is the ultimate indulgence for beef fans. Beef wellington was apparently Richard Nixon’s favourite dish. Puff pastry wrapped meat has been a delicacy for hundreds of years and it’s thought that the Greeks came up with the idea first.