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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 ...
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.
Richard Colley Wellesley was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was Viscount Wellesley until 1781 when he succeeded his father as the 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was elevated to the Irish peerage as Marquess Wellesley. Between 1798 and 1805, he was the fifth Governor-General of India, and he later served as Foreign ...
Há 5 dias · 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 ...
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.
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, 1. Marquess Wellesley (* 20. Juni 1760 in Dangan Castle, County Meath, Irland; † 26. September 1842 in Kingston House bei Brompton) war ein britischer Staatsmann. Er war zweimal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, von 1797 bis 1805 Generalgouverneur der Ostindien-Kompanie und von 1809 bis 1812 Außenminister ( Secretary of ...
