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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

1760 - 1842

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Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (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 Norragh. He was also Lord Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley is the 12,151st most popular politician (down from 10,673rd in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 114th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 12,151 out of 19,576. Before him are Filippo Turati, Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Suhail Shaheen, Ashur-resh-ishi II, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, and Bahubali. After him are Ioannis Alevras, Jaan Poska, Princess Pilar of Bavaria, Pierre Poujade, Alexander H. Stephens, and Vineh of Bulgaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 29. Before him are Christian Kramp, Constantine Ypsilantis, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Georg Franz Hoffmann, and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth. After him are Charles de Bonchamps, François Buzot, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Ferdinand Bauer, and Maria Cosway. Among people deceased in 1842, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 29. Before him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Nodira, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Letitia Christian Tyler, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Pierre Baillot. After him are James Ivory, Thomas Arnold, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, and Aleksey Koltsov.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 158 out of 549. Before him are Adomnán (624), Micheál Martin (1960), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Jim Sheridan (1949), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), and Hozier (1990). After him are Robbie Keane (1980), Aphex Twin (1971), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Sean Kelly (1956), Kathleen Antonelli (1921), and Robert Mallet (1810).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 32. Before him are Constantine III of Scotland (971), Arthur Griffith (1871), Pat Cox (1952), Daniel O'Connell (1775), Micheál Martin (1960), and Charles Stewart Parnell (1846). After him are Patrick Hillery (1923), Seán T. O'Kelly (1882), Edward Bruce (1275), Enda Kenny (1951), Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880), and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911).

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