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Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, [1] 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 of ...
On 31 Dec. he was gazetted, as the Hon. Richard Wellesley. His sister wrote, 9 Jan. 1812: ‘He seems to think of nothing but politics, and studies and occupies himself very much all day long’. 3. Avoiding re-election at Queenborough, he came in for East Grinstead, a safer seat available to friends of the government.
Richard A. Smith. 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. In 1793 he became a member of the India Board and from ...
English: Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 - 26 September 1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He married first the French actress Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland. Their daughter Anne ...
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 of ...
The Marquess Wellesley is depicted by Robertson in 1826 wearing the badge of the Grand Master of the Order of St Patrick in his capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a role he held 1821 – 8 and 1833 – 4. Another version by Robertson is at Stratfield Saye (no. 563).Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, elder son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and brother of Arthur ...
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When Richard Wellesley 1st Marquess Wellesley was born on 20 June 1760, in Dangan Castle, County Meath, Ireland, his father, Garret Wellesley 1st Earl of Mornington, was 24 and his mother, Anne Hill-Trevor, was 17. He married Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland on 29 November 1794, in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom.
