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Ordre de la Jarretière. Gouverneurs de la présidence de Fort William. modifier. Richard Colley Wesley, 1er 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.
Lord Mornington - the Marquis of Wellesley (the Duke of Wellington 's elder brother) - was Governor-General from 1797 to 1805, succeeding Cornwallis. Cornwallis had acted in the light of Pitt's India Act and was a reformer who had studied the career of Warren Hastings. Wellesley saw India as a theatre in the world war with France; he was a ...
Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, 9th Prince of Waterloo, 10th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, 9th Duke of Victoria, GE, OBE, DL (born 19 August 1945), styled Earl of Mornington between 1945 and 1972 and Marquess of Douro between 1972 and 2014, is a British peer and politician. He served as Conservative Member of the European ...
27 de abr. de 2022 · Death: September 26, 1842 (82) Kingston House, Knightsbridge, London, England. Place of Burial: Chapel, Eton College, Eton, England. Immediate Family: Son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington and Anne Wesley, Countess of Mornington. Husband of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Wellesley and Marianne Patterson. Father of Lord Richard Wellesley; Anne ...
The two great heroic figures of Britain’s war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France met only once. As Horatio Nelson rose to fame in the 1790s the future Duke of Wellington – then Sir Arthur Wellesley – was serving in India. Wellesley only returned to Britain in 1805, but it so happened that his visit to London to solicit a new ...
WELLESLEY, RICHARD COLLEY WESLEY (or Wellesley), Marquess (1760-1842), eldest son of the 1st earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of the famous duke of Wellington, was born on the 20th of June 1760. He was sent to Eton, where he was distinguished as a classical s
A three volume scientific and ethnographic study of southern India just after the death of Tipu Sultan, first published in 1807 and acquired by William IV.The Scottish physician and botanist Francis Buchanan (1762–1829) began his survey in 1800 at the request of Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India, following the death of Tipu Sultan and the annexation of Mysore by the East India ...
