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Hace 4 días · 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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Hace 4 días · Equally, Dirks engages with many elements of the complexity and even contradictory nature of the Company’s early state and state-building, and does an admirable job of disentangling elements of early Company politics (though it must be noted that Dirks has also made several elementary errors in the text, including the mixing up of Arthur and Richard Wellesley on p. 238 and on p. 122 the ...
Hace 4 días · This article argues that Queen Victoria's Proclamation of 1858, marking the transfer of power from the East India Company to the crown, ushered in a new era of colonial secularity.
Hace 1 día · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
Hace 2 días · Simón Bolívar Posthumous portrait, 1922 1st President of Colombia In office 16 February 1819 – 27 April 1830 Preceded by Estanislao Vergara y Sanz de Santamaría Succeeded by Domingo Caycedo 4th President of Peru [a] In office 10 February 1824 – 27 January 1827 Preceded by José Bernardo de Tagle Succeeded by José de La Mar 1st President of Bolivia [b] In office 6 August 1825 – 29 ...
Hace 1 día · Trinity and Oriel. MP 1880–1907, Ambassador to the United States 1907–13. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Balliol and All Souls. Viceroy of India 1899–1905, Foreign Secretary 1919–24. John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. Governor General of Canada 1893–98.
Hace 18 horas · He died in 1660, leaving no issue, and was succeeded in the manor by Walter Lord Aston, son of his sister Gertrude, who married Sir Walter Aston of Tixall, co. Stafford, created a baronet on the institution of that order in 1611 and made Lord Aston of Forfar in 1627. Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.
