Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
British politician (1760-1842) · Politicians · Died at 82
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, 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 Norragh.
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Portrait of Wellesley ca. 1803 in officer's uniform with star and sash of the Order of St Patrick, painted by Robert Home.
Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1791
Lord Wellesley in Garter Robes, with the badge of the Grand Master of the Order of St Patrick around his neck and carrying the white staff of office as Lord Steward, presumably dressed for the coronation of William IV on 8 September 1831. Westminster Abbey in the background. Portrait by Sir Martin Archer Shee and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1833
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He was also Baron Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was a great-great-great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
