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14 de jun. de 2019 · Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley.
Wellesley (Wesley), Richard Colley (1760–1842), Marquis Wellesley , governor-general of Bengal and lord lieutenant of Ireland, was born 20 June 1760 at Dangan Castle, Co. Meath, eldest child of Garret Wesley (qv), 1st Viscount Wellesley and earl of Mornington, and Anne, eldest daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Duncannon.
WELLESLEY, RICHARD COLLEY (1760–1842), governor-general of India (1798–1805). Richard Colley Wellesley, Earl Mornington and Marquess Wellesley, was born into the English "ascendancy" in Ireland. First elected to the British House of Commons in 1784, his introduction to Indian affairs came with his appointment in 1793 to the Board of Control, the link between the government and the East ...
Richard Colley Wellesley, primer marqués de Wellesley, KG, KP, PC, PC (Ire) (20 de junio de 1760 - 26 de septiembre de 1842) fue un político y administrador colonial angloirlandés. Fue nombrado vizconde de Wellesley hasta 1781, cuando sucedió a su padre como segundo conde de Mornington.
He was in favour of free trade, Catholic emancipation, the abolition of slavery, and (from the 1820s) parliamentary reform. Wellesley was a member of the Board of Control for India from 1793, and in 1797 was appointed as Governor-General of Bengal. In 1799 he was created Marquess Wellesley in the Irish peerage. He remained in India until 1805 ...
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley, governor-general of India, was born at Dangan Castle on 20 June 1760. He was the eldest of the six sons of Garrett Wellesley, first viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle and earl of Mornington in the county of Meath. His mother was Anne, eldest daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, first viscount Dungannon.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), who married Hon. Catherine Pakenham, daughter of Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford, in 1806; The Rev. Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1770–1848), married Lady Emily Cadogan, eldest daughter of Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan; Lady Mary Elizabeth Wesley (1772–1794)
