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Richard Coley Wellesley, the 1st Marquess Wellesley, was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was appointed the fifth Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. He also served as Foreign Secretary during the Napoleonic Wars and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of ...
11 de jan. de 2007 · The Wellesley papers : the life and correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842, Governor-General of India, 1797-1805, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1809-1812, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821-1827, 1833-1834
Richard Wellesley may refer to: Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. Richard Wellesley (1787–1831), his son, Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament. Richard Wellesley, 6th Earl Cowley (1946–1975), British Conservative politician.
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 reduce the ...
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.
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.
Wellesley, Richard, 1st Marquis Wellesley (1760–1842). British administrator and the eldest brother of the duke of Wellington. In 1784 Wellesley entered parliament as MP for Beeralston where he sympathized with the free trade movement but opposed parliamentary reform.
