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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 866,325 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley is the 10,674th most popular politician (down from 9,438th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 100th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 10,674 out of 19,576. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Anouvong, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Steingrímur Hermannsson, and Hiệp Hòa. After him are Shi Lang, Galindo Aznárez I, Antonio Ascari, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, Koca Yusuf Pasha, and Joseph Lancaster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 25. Before him are Georg Franz Hoffmann, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Aloysia Weber, Constantine Ypsilantis, Christian Kramp, and Leandro Fernández de Moratín. After him are Olof Swartz, Charles de Bonchamps, François Buzot, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, and Lemuel Francis Abbott. Among people deceased in 1842, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 24. Before him are Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, and Pierre Baillot. After him are Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Robert Smith, Nodira, Thomas Arnold, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Wilhelm Gesenius.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 114 out of 549. Before him are Roger Casement (1864), Richard Montgomery (1738), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Cornelius Ryan (1920), and Colm Meaney (1953). After him are Douglas Hyde (1860), Grace O'Malley (1530), George Abraham Grierson (1851), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), and Jim Sheridan (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley ranks 20. Before him are Eliza Lynch (1833), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Arthur Griffith (1871), Constantine III of Scotland (971), and John Boland (1870). After him are Douglas Hyde (1860), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), and Pat Cox (1952).

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