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Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, British colonial administrator, was brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He became earl of Mornington on his father's death (1781) and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords. He entered the English House of Commons in 1784 and gave his support to William Pitt, who in 1793 ...
Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator. He first made his name as Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805 and later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Robert Clive won and Warren Hastings consolidated the British ...
Wellesley’s mother wished him to be in Parliament, but in December 1808 he set sail for the Peninsula, avoiding the break-up of his parents’ marriage, with Canning’s offer of an attaché’s place at Lisbon. He carried messages to his uncle Sir Arthur Wellesley and sent reports to his father, who in July 1809 became ambassador to Spain.
16 de mai. de 2024 · Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), 2nd Earl of Mornington (succeeded 1781), 1st Marquess Wellesley (created 1799). Brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, Tory M.P. 1784-97. Lord of Treasury, 1786-97, member of Board of Control for affairs of ...
Richard Colley Wesley, 1 er marquis de Wellesley, comte de Mornington (Château de Dangan, Comté de Meath, Irlande, 20 juin 1760 — Knightsbridge, Londres, 26 septembre 1842), joue un rôle majeur dans la colonisation britannique de l'Inde.
10 de out. de 2023 · Lord Wellesley, also known by the name of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was born on June 20, 1760. He belonged to an Anglo-Irish family and worked as a colonial administrator and politician. In the year 1799, he was raised to the Irish peerage as Marquess Wellesley. Lord Wellesley served as the Governor-General of India from ...
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, KG, KP, PC, PC (Ire) (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington.
