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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

1760–1842 · 19th century

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), was Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. An elder brother of the Duke of Wellington, he greatly expanded British power through the subsidiary alliance system, the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War that destroyed Tipu Sultan in 1799 and the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He was later British Foreign Secretary and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
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