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3 giorni fa · Wellesley was the sixth of nine children born to the Earl and Countess of Mornington. His siblings included Richard, Viscount Wellesley, later 1st Marquess Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, and Baron Maryborough. Birth date and place
5 giorni fa · Combined British, Dutch and Hanoverian forces were under the supreme command of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The order of battle included below reflects all units of the Anglo-allied Army including those that were not present for the battles themselves (units spread across the area or on garrison duty).
1 giorno fa · This is an incomplete list of those who were made knights and dames grand cross of the Order of the Bath from the date of the Order's structural change by the Prince Regent on behalf of his father, King George III, on 2 January 1815. Knights/Dames Grand Cross use the post-nominal GCB.
15 ore fa · Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) Governor-General of India by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1815. Source: Government Art Collection UK In the summer of 1804, an English merchant named John Bellingham went on a business trip to the Russian port of Arkhangelsk. Having finished his work in November, Bellingham tried to return home.
4 giorni fa · After the death of the 1st Earl in 1837, the house was let to the Duke of Wellington's brother, Richard, Marquess Wellesley, who died there in 1842. In 1864 the house attracted a purchase offer — through the agency of C. J. Freake, the developer of the adjoining ground to the west — from Baron Lionel de Rothschild, who had been ...
3 giorni fa · Moreover, through the ‘moral spectacle’ of the impeachment trial, this public addressing of scandal helped to convert Britain’s presence in India to a perception of legitimate sovereignty, producing the conditions for empire’s success and ‘its transformation into a patriotic enterprise’ (p. 125).
5 giorni fa · Board of Green Cloth -Lord Steward 1660–1837. The lord steward presided over the Household Below Stairs. In addition to making contracts and overseeing the activity of the board of green cloth, he was the principal judge for all offences committed within the verge.
