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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. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley of ...
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Hace 5 días · Mysore War. 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 ...
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83 likes, 0 comments - lord_speaker on December 20, 2020: "Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley of Norragh, 2nd earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesl..." His Excellency Lord Speaker on Instagram: "Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley of Norragh, 2nd earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle and Baron Wellesley of Wellesley (1760-1842) He was a British statesman and ...
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 ...
De origen irlandés, nacido en 1760, fue miembro de la Cámara de los Pares irlandesa y a partir de 1784 de los Comunes inglesa. Miembro del cuerpo de administración colonial británico, fue gobernador general de la India desde 1797, logrando asentar el régimen colonial inglés. Fue destituido en 1805 por pactar alianzas con los jefes nativos ...
23 de may. de 2018 · 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.
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, the link between the government and the East ...
