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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.
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Wellesley, as governor of Madras (now Chennai) and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797–1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and, as lord lieutenant of Ireland (1821–28, 1833–34), attempted to reconcile Protestants and Roman Catholics in a bitterly divided country.
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Lord Wellesley (as Governor-General) arrived in India in 1798, at a time when the British were engaged in a global battle with France. Lord Wellesley decided that the time had come to bring as many Indian states under British control as possible. By 1797, the two most powerful Indian powers, Mysore and the Marathas had lost ground.
Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) Lord Wellesley (as Governor General) came to India in 1798 at a time when the British were locked in a life and death struggle with France all over the world. Lord Wellesley decided that the time was ripe for bringing as many Indian states as possible under British control.
Lord Wellesley was one of the important Indian Governor Generals who contributed in the expansion of British Government. He was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator. Lord Wellesley served as the Governor General of India from 1798-1805 AD after Lord Cornwallis and Sir John Shore.
20 de set. de 2019 · Lord Wellesley attempted to make the Company the Supreme Power in India by means of wars, mediatisation and the Subsidiary Alliance. He fought the fourth Mysore War with Tipu in 1799, annexed most of the territory of Mysore and restored a part of it to the previous Hindu ruler who became a dependent ally of the English.
Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta. Wellesley started the Fort William College to train the European administrators.