Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley GCB was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and politician. He was the younger brother of the soldier and politician Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He is known particu
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley by Thomas Lawrence. Henry's elder brother Richard Wellesley promoted his diplomatic career in both India and Europe.
In 1809 Wellesley's first wife, Charlotte, ran away with Lord Paget leading to public scandal and a divorce.
Arthur Duke of Wellington
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, known as The Lord Cowley between 1847 and 1857, was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to France between 1852 and 1867.
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
…Paget, later 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He later remarried, to Lady Georgiana Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury. His eldest son, Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, followed in his father's footsteps as a diplomatist, holding the Paris embassy for fifteen years, and was eventually created Earl Cowley. Another son…
S. E. Lord Cowley
The Congress of Paris by Edouard Dubufe. Cowley is shown amongst the diplomats attending the conference to end the Crimean War.