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Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, (born June 20, 1760, Dangan, County Meath, Ire.—died Sept. 26, 1842, London, Eng.), British statesman. He inherited his father’s Irish title as earl of Mornington and sat in the Irish House of Lords from 1781. He served in the British House of Commons (1784–97). As governor of Madras and governor general of Bengal (1797–1805), he used ...
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, and extended British control through various wars against Indian rulers. In 1809 he went to Spain as an ambassador-extraordinary, and from 1810-1812 served as Foreign ...
Richard Wellesley peut faire référence à : Richard Wellesley, 1er marquis de Wellesley (1760–1842), homme politique anglo-irlandais et administrateur colonial. Richard Wellesley, fils du précédent, député anglo-irlandais. Richard Wellesley, 6e comte Cowley (1946–1975), homme politique conservateur britannique.
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1e Marquess ( markies) Wellesley en 2e Earl ( graaf) van Mornington ( 20 juni 1760 - Knightsbridge, 26 september 1842) was een Iers en Brits koloniaal bestuurder en politicus. Hij was gouverneur-generaal van Brits-Indië (het huidige India) tussen 1798 en 1805. In die positie voerde hij een agressief-kolonialistische ...
Politician and Governor-General of India; brother of Wellington Brother of the Duke of Wellington, Richard Colley Wellesley played a vital role in the consolidation of British rule in India during the Regency. In 1793 he became a commissioner of the Board of Control for India, and in 1797 was appointed Governor-General. Wellesley pursued an aggressive policy of expansion, partly in order to ...
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.
理查德·科利·韦尔斯利（Richard Colley Wellesley），第一任侯爵·韦尔斯利（Marquess Wellesley ）（1760年6月20日至1842年9月26日）是盎格鲁- 爱尔兰政治家和殖民地管理员。直到1781年，他被任命为...
