Lady Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, known between 1806 and 1816 as Lady Abdy, was a British aristocrat and a great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1825
Image: Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley by John Philip Davis ('Pope' Davis)
Image: Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, 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. He was also Lord Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, c.1813
Wellesley in officer's uniform with star and sash of the Order of St Patrick. Portrait by Robert Home
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, as painted by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in 1791.
Lord Wellesley in Garter Robes, with the badge of the Grand Master of the Order of St Patrick around his neck and carrying the white staff of office as Lord Steward, presumably dressed for the coronation of King William IV on 8 September 1831. Westminster Abbey in the background. Portrait by Sir Martin Archer Shee and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1833
