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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley has received more than 788,088 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley is the 9,465th most popular politician (up from 10,629th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 138th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 9,465 out of 15,577. Before him are Sofoklis Venizelos, Anne of Bohemia, Rana Sanga, Gaius Licinius Stolo, Beketaten, and Edzard II, Count of East Frisia. After him are Pablo Iglesias Posse, Adolf Hühnlein, Arshak II, Eddie Fenech Adami, Sewadjkare, and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 21. Before him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Akbar II, Johann Peter Hebel, William Beckford, Christian Kramp, and Constantine Ypsilantis. After him are Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Olof Swartz, Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Charles de Bonchamps, and Mohammad Ali Khan Zand. Among people deceased in 1842, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 22. Before him are José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, and Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo. After him are Thomas Arnold, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Pierre Baillot, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Robert Smith.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 101 out of 501. Before him are Edward Mulhare (1923), William Brown (1777), Saint Fiacre (607), Fiona Shaw (1958), Edward Bransfield (1785), and Dymphna (700). After him are Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Kevin of Glendalough (498), John Ellis (1710), Grace O'Malley (1530), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), and Edward Bruce (1275).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 17. Before him are Brian Cowen (1960), Brian Boru (941), Mary Robinson (1944), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Constantine III of Scotland (971). After him are Edward Bruce (1275), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), and Arthur Griffith (1871).

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