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Mysore Wars. Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (born June 20, 1760, Dangan, County Meath, Ireland—died September 26, 1842, London, England) 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 ...
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. He served in the British House of Commons (1784–97). As governor of Madras and ...
11 de ene. de 2007 · The Wellesley papers : the life and correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842, Governor-General of India, 1797-1805, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1809-1812, and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821-1827, 1833-1834 Bookreader Item Preview
He was in favour of free trade, Catholic emancipation, the abolition of slavery, and (from the 1820s) parliamentary reform. 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 ...
Wellesley, Richard Colley, Earl of Mornington, Marquis Wellesley, son of the preceding [ Viscount Garrett Wellesley ], 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.
Richard Wellesley,1er Marqués Wellesley. Richard Colley Wesley, posteriormente Wellesley, 1er Marqués Wellesley (20 de junio de 1760 - 26 de septiembre de 1842), fue el hijo mayor de Garret Wesley, 1er Conde de Mornington en la Nobleza de Irlanda, y hermano de Arthur Wellesley, 1er Duque de Wellington.
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 ...
