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Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator. He first made his name as Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805 and later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Robert Clive won and Warren Hastings consolidated the British ...
Memoirs and Correspondence of Richard Marquess Wellesley, Comprising Numerous Letters and Documents, Now First Published from Original Mss: By Robert Rouiere Pearce, Richard Wellesley: Author: Richard Wellesley: Publisher: Rich. Bentley, 1846: Original from: the Bavarian State Library: Digitized: Feb 13, 2009 : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote ...
10 de oct. de 2023 · Lord Wellesley, also known by the name of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, was born on June 20, 1760. He belonged to an Anglo-Irish family and worked as a colonial administrator and politician. In the year 1799, he was raised to the Irish peerage as Marquess Wellesley. Lord Wellesley served as the Governor-General of India from ...
Lord Wellesley (as Governor General) came to India in 1798 at a time when the British were locked in a life and death struggle with France all over the world. Lord Wellesley decided that the time was ripe for bringing as many Indian states as possible under British control. By 1797, the two strongest Indian powers, Mysore and the Marathas, had ...
Politician and Governor-General of India; brother of Wellington Brother of the Duke of Wellington, Richard Colley Wellesley played a vital role in the consolidation of British rule in India during the Regency. In 1793 he became a commissioner of the Board of Control for India, and in 1797 was appointed Governor-General. Wellesley pursued an aggressive policy of expansion, partly in order to ...
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 ...
Lord James Wellesley (b. 16 December 1956), married Laura Wedge, with one daughter, divorced; married Emma Nethercott. During the course of her regular work Diana discovered a plot by the Stern Gang to bomb St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem on her wedding day. The bomb was retrieved but the couple still received a police escort, which Lord ...
