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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
British politician (1760-1842)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 June 1760
- Died
- 26 September 1842
- Place of birth
- County Meath
- Place of death
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Colley
- Sibling
- Lady Anne Culling Smith, Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Gerald Valerian Wellesley
- Occupation
- diplomat, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland, Governor-General of India, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Spain, member of the House of Lords, member of the 16th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 17th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Awards
- Order of the Garter
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- depicted by
- Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, Richard Colley, Viscount Wellesley (1760–1842)
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- educated at
- Christ Church, Eton College, Harrow School, The Royal School, Armagh
- employer
- Foreign Office
- family
- House of Wellesley
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
- noble title
- Marquess of Wellesley, Baron Wellesley
- topic's main category
- Category:Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
- Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (1760-1842)
- Wellesley, Richard Colley (1760-1842) (DNB00)
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Wellesley, Richard Colley Wesley, Marquess
- Wellesley, Richard (Colley)
- Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842)
- Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley
- Richard Colley, Viscount Wellesley (1760–1842)
- Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), Governor-General of India
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