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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.
Apr 15, 2024 · Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley was a British statesman and government official. 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.
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The British colonial administrator Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), served as governor general of India. He was one of the most vigorous expansionists to hold that office.
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.
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, (born June 20, 1760, Dangan, County Meath, Ire.—died Sept. 26, 1842, London, Eng.), British statesman. He inherited his father’s Irish title as earl of Mornington and sat in the Irish House of Lords from 1781.
WELLESLEY, RICHARD COLLEY (1760–1842), governor-general of India (1798–1805). Richard Colley Wellesley, Earl Mornington and Marquess Wellesley, was born into the English "ascendancy" in Ireland. First elected to the British House of Commons in 1784, his introduction to Indian affairs came with his appointment in 1793 to the Board of Control ...
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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.
