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  Earl of Mornington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The subsidiary titles associated with this peerage are Viscount Wellesley (1760) and Baron Mornington (1746), both in the Peerage of Ireland.
The second earl, Richard Wellesley, was created Baron Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1797 and Marquess Wellesley in the Peerage of Ireland in 1799, which titles became extinct at his death.
William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough (1763-1845), succeeded as 3rd Earl of Mornington in 1842
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 arthur wellesley, 1st duke of wellington - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769–14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century.
He came from an established family of noblemen – his father was the Earl of Mornington, his eldest brother, who would inherit his father's Earldom, would be created Marquess Wellesley, and two of his other brothers would be raised to the peerage as Baron Maryborough and Baron Cowley.
Earl of Wellington, in the County of Somerset (28 February 1812)
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 Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (19 July 1735–22 May 1781) was an Irish politician and composer, best known today for fathering several distinguished British politicians.
Four of Lord Mornington's five sons were created peers in the Peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
The Earldom of Mornington is held by the Dukes of Wellington, and the Barons Cowley have since been elevated to be Earls Cowley.
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 Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mornington seems to have caught Pitt's large political spirit in the period 1793 to 1797.
Mornington resolved to anticipate the action of the enemy, and ordered preparations for war.
On his death, he had no successor in the marquessate, but the earldom of Mornington and minor honours devolved on his brother (additional info and facts about William, Lord Maryborough) William, Lord Maryborough, on the failure of whose issue in 1863 they fell to the 2nd Duke of Wellington.
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Arthur Wellesley was born Arthur Wesley May 1, 1769 son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington close to Trim in Ireland.
The Viscountcy of Wellesley and the Barony and Earldom of Mornington are in the Peerage of Ireland; the rest are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10256
     Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington was born on 20 June 1760 in Dangan Castle, County Meath, Ireland.
     Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington was educated between 1751 and 1764 in Trinity College, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.
She married Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, son of Richard Wesley, 1st Baron of Mornington and Elizabeth Sale, on 6 February 1759.
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 Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 - 26 September 1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
In 1833 he resumed the office of Lord Lieutenant under Earl Grey, but the ministry soon fell, and, with one short exception, Wellesley did not take any further part in official life.
On his death, he had no successor in the marquessate, but the earldom of Mornington and minor honours devolved on his brother William, Lord Maryborough, on the failure of whose issue in 1863 they fell to the 2nd Duke of Wellington.
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 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wellington is often compared to the 1st Duke of Marlborough, with whom he shared many characteristics, chiefly a transition to politics after a highly successful military career.
Arthur Wesley (later changed to Wellesley when his elder brother changed his own name) is believed to have been born in either in Mornington House, his family's social season Dublin residence, or at his family's seat of Dangan Castle near Trim in County Meath, both in Ireland.
Wellesley was educated at Eton from 1781 to 1785, but a lack of success there, combined with a shortage of family funds, led to a move to Brussels in Belgium to receive further education.
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 Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (19 July 1735–22 May 1781) was an (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish politician and (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer, best known today for fathering several distinguished British politicians.
As a composer he is remembered chiefly for glees such as Here in cool grot and for a double (additional info and facts about Anglican chant) Anglican chant.
Wesley's four titled sons all had titles created in the (additional info and facts about Peerage of England) Peerage of England, entitling them to sit in the (The upper house of the British parliament) House of Lords.
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 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington (April 30 1769 – September 14 1852) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who became a British soldier and politician.
Born in Dublin Ireland the third son of Garret Wesley Earl of Mornington his exact date of is a matter of some contention.
The Earl of Winchilsea accused duke of having "treacherously plotted the destruction the Protestant constitution".
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 Temple Bar Medical Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arthur Wesley (later changed to Wellesley) was the fifth son of the Earl of Mornington and was born in 1769 in Mornington House (now the Merrion Hotel) in Merrion Street, just across the road from today's Government Buildings.
Earl of Mornington, whose country home was Dangan Castle in County Meath.
During the years 1787 to 1793 he was aide de camp to John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Lieutenant in Ireland.
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 I26889: Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Of Wellington (29 APR 1769 - 14 SEP 1852)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington; entered army (1787); Irish M.P. (1790-97); commanded a division in war with Tipu Sultan (1799); appointed by his brother (then governor general of India) to supreme military and political command in the Deccan (to 1805); defeated Mar¢th¢chiefs (1803); returned to England (1805); M.P. (1806-09); Irish secretary (1807-09).
Master general of ordnance with seat in cabinet (1818-27); as English representative in Congress of Verona (1822), unsuccessfully argued against French armed intervention in Spain; failed in mission to Russia to induce czar not to threaten war with Turkey in behalf of Greek independence (1826); commander in chief (1827-28, 1842-52).
Descendants of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Of Wellington and Hon.
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 Re: Grandmother of Duke of Wellington/Sale
January 31, 1758) took the surname "Wesley or Wellesley" on inheriting the property of his cousin, Garret Wesley.
Richard was created Lord Mornington and he married (the Baroness of Mornington) Elizabeth SALE (b.
Garret (Earl of Mornington) Wellesley's third son was Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), baptized at St. Peter's Dublin, who became the first Duke of Wellington in 1814 (Field Marshall, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, and Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1828), who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.
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 arthur wellesley 1st duke of wellington
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 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (c.
Wellington was victorious over Napoleon and the French at each of six major battles, confirming his place as one of history's greatest generals and strategists.
He was the third son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
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 LAWLESS GENEALOGY - Life in the Past Lane
Lawles to the Earl of Ormonde of a messuage in Clonmel (June?), 1521 and of messuage and lands in Elias Lawles Balymakrauthyn alias Lawleston in Co. Tipperary, June 24, 1521
Calender of Inquisitions -CS484 675 1991 Grant by Gerald Wesley of Dengen to Sir Luke Dillon of Moymett, Edward Cussacke of Lesmolin.
The aforesaid John was also seized of the fee of the estate, mortgaged for L 40, of the town and lands of Sheepstown, in the Co. KIK, containing one-fifth carucate of land, which are held from the Earl of Desmonde, as of his manor of Knocktopher, by fealty only.
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
In the portrait painted for the War Gallery of 1812 the Duke is shown in the uniform of a British field marshal with the sashes, stars and badges of the Russian Orders of St Andrew the First-Called and St George 1st class and the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece.
Arthur Wellesley was the son of the Irish peer Lord Garret Colley-Wesley, the Earl of Mornington.
He opted for a military career in his youth and rapidly moved up the service ladder: by the age of 25 he was already a lieutenant-colonel.
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Arthur was the fourth son of the Earl and Countess of Mornington.
The countess family, the Wesleys, had previously settled in Ireland, but their original property was in Sussex, and they were of the old Saxon race.
Captain Wellesley was returned in 1790 for Trim, a rotten borough, the property of the Morningtons; and for three or four years he represented in the house little more, it is said; than the local squabbles and interests of his pocket constituency, and the hereditary toryism of his family.
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 Irish Marriage N-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
of Earl of Westmeath, in London Aug. 1784 p.
of late Earl of Mayo, at Clifton church Apr. 1806 p.
Webb, John, 1st Foot Guards=Orme, Miss Dec. 1797 p.
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 Arthur Wellesley Duke Of Wellington
He was born Arthur Wesley (the family name was changed in 1798) in late April 1769; the exact date and place of his birth are disputed, but his family's property at Merrion Street, Dublin, is the most likely place.
He was the fifth son of Garret Wesley, first Earl of Mornington, an improvident Anglo-Irish peer who left his estates weighed down by debts on his death twelve years later.
Arthur was educated at Eton and at a French military academy at Angers; he showed little early promise and was regarded as the dullard of the family.
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 The Journal To Stella by Jonathan Swift eBook by BookRags
Catherine, daughter of Maurice Keating, of Narraghmore, Kildare, and wife of Garret Wesley, of Dangan, M.P. for Meath.
On the death of Garret Wesley without issue in 1728, the property passed to a cousin, Richard Colley, who was afterwards created Baron Mornington, and was grandfather to the Duke of Wellington.
The Earl of Godolphin, who was severely satirised by Swift in his Sid Hamet’s Rod, 171O.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 42   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
George Augustus Frederick, Earl of Munster 1st FitzClarence, b.
George Augustus Henry, Earl of Burlington 1st Cavendish, b.
George Augustus, Earl of Guildford 3rd North, b.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wellesley, Henry Arthur Mornington, Earl Cowley 3rd, b.
Wellesley, William Henry George, Earl Cowley 2nd, b.
Wesley, Garret of Mornington, Earl of Mornington 1st, b.
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 Descendants of Lord Otterus (Othoer) of Gherardini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Thomas FITZGERALD of Kildare 1: 7th Earl of Kildare 2: 1454 Lord Deputy of the Kingdom 3: 1463 Lord Deputy of the Kingdom b: Bef.
Richard COLLEY-WELLESLEY of Mornington 1: Sir (K.G.) 2: 2nd Earl of Mornington 3: 1784 M.P. 4: 1786 Lord of the Treasury 5: 1797 Gov.-Gen. of India (1797-1805) 6: December 02, 1799 Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, Somersetshire, England 7: December 02, 1799 Marquess Wellesley of Norrah 8: 1805 Ambassador to Madrid, España 9: 1809 Sec.
Piers BUTLER of Ormond 1: 1515 8th Earl of Ormond (surrendered 1528, restored 1538) 2: February 23, 1527/28 1st Earl of Ossory, Ireland b: Abt.
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 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - Questionz.net, answers to all your questions
The 10th Earl of Winchilsea accused the duke of having "treacherously plotted the destruction of the Protestant constitution".
Wellinginton responded by immediately challenging the Earl to a duel.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10719
He married Lady Anne Wellesley, daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington and Hon.
     Charles Culling Smith married Lady Anne Wellesley, daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington and Hon.
She married Ion Trant Hamilton, 1st Baron Holmpatrick on 6 September 1877.
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