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Lord Wellesley's transformative era in colonial India with wars, alliances, and press control. Learn about his aggressive policies and their impact on British dominance.
"Zamorna, Duke of (Arthur Augustus Adrian Wellesley, Marquis of Douro, King of Angria)" published on by Oxford University Press. occasional early pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë and eldest son of the Duke of Wellington whom he replaces as Charlotte's favourite character.
statesman and administrator, born in Dublin, eldest son of the Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and eldest brother of the Duke of Wellington, and his senior by nine years; educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in…
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 ...
The Carver manuscripts contain papers of the family of Richard Wellesley, first Marquis Wellesley (1760-1842), the eldest son of Garret Wesley, first Earl of Mornington, and Anne Hill, and the elder brother of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was Governor General of India, 1797-1805, and Commander-in-Chief, 1800-5, during ...
However, as the advocate of the nabob; he asked for nothing but justice; sheer naked justice— justice founded on the facts as lord Wellesley had himself related them; and he was sure that, if the house would but give a fair hearing to the case, these facts thus detailed would be sufficient to induce the house to mark, with the severest reprobation, the conduct of the noble marquis: he hoped ...
In July 1797 he accompanied Lord Malmesbury to Lille as his secretary. Two months later he accompanied his brother Lord Mornington (later Marquis Wellesley) the Viceroy, to India as his secretary. Between August 1799 and March 1801 he was in England, but on his return to India he became lieutenant-governor of the territory ceded by Oudh.
