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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 ...
1. 1799–1803 1807–1813 1815. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United ...
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. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley.
4th EIC voyage (1806–1808) Captain Le Blanc sailed from Portsmouth on 14 May 1806, bound for Madras and Bengal. Marquis Wellesley reached Simons Bay on 6 August and Penang on 13 October. She arrived at Kedgeree on 11 December. She was at Madras on 13 January 1807 and returned to Saugor on 11 February. She was at Madras on 13 April.
Shee did also paint Queen Victoria in 1842 (Royal Academy). Richard Colley Wellesley was born in Ireland in 1760 and was the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley, later 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). A politician who held positions in the House of Commons in both Ireland and Britain, Lord Wellesley served as Governor-General of India and Lord ...
Wellesley, Richard Colley, Earl of Mornington, Marquis Wellesley, son of the preceding, was born in Grafton-street, Dublin, 20th June 1760. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards passed on to Oxford, where he stood high in classical attainments, especially on account of his facility in Latin verse composition.
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 ...
