Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley: References & Edit History
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A standard biography is G.B. Malleson, Life of the Marquess Wellesley, K.G. (1889; reprinted 1985). W.H. Hutton, The Marquess Wellesley. K.G., and the Development of the Company into the Supreme Power in India (1897, reprinted 2004); P.E. Roberts, India Under Wellesley (1929, reissued 1961); and John Kenneth Severn, A Wellesley Affair: Richard Marquess Wellesley and the Conduct of Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1809–1812 (1981), examine different periods in Wellesley’s career.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 15, 2024 | ||
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Aug 07, 2015 | |
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Aug 07, 2015 | ||
| Photograph of Wellesley portrait added. | Aug 07, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 16, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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