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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. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley of ...
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, elder son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was created Marquess Wellesley in the Irish peerage (1799). He served as Governor-General of Bengal 1797 – 1805 and Foreign Secretary 1809 – 12.
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.
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, 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 Norragh.
Members of the Order of the Garter. Male diplomats of the United Kingdom. British East India Company. Governors-General of India.
The Marquess Wellesley’s misconduct towards the mother of his five children and his neglect of them was notorious, but he could not (except by her) be faulted in his solicitude for his firstborn son, who closely resembled him and showed promise.
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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.
