Henry Colley

Henry Colley (1648–1719) was an Irish Member of Parliament. (Henry Colley' was also known as Henry Cowley.)

His paternal grandparents were the former Anne Peyton (the daughter of Sir Christopher Peyton) and Sir Henry Colley, who acquired substantial lands in County Wexford.

Career Colley represented County Kildare from 1698 to 1699.

Personal life In 1705, Henry Colley erected a monument, in Carberry Castle's church in County Kildare, to his father Dudley, which said, "Henry Colley, now living, son of Dudley Colley, married Mary Ussher, and had issue by her six sons and six daughters; whereof two sons, Henry and Richard, and six daughters, are now living. She was the only daughter of Sir William Ussher of Bridgefoot, Knt. by his Lady Ursula St. Barb, and lyeth here interred". Sir William Ussher was MP for County Dublin, and Ursula St. Barbe was a daughter of Capt. George St. Barbe.

Henry Colley (–1723), who married Lady Mary Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn. he adopted the name Wesley (Wellesley) upon the inheritance of the estates of his cousin Garret Wesley (d. 1728); he also took the name in right of his wife Elizabeth Sale (d. 1738) as the Wellesley heiress through her grandmother, Catherine Wellesley Cusack (d. 1598), daughter of Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who was the son of Alison de Wellesley. Richard and Elizabeth Wellesley were the parents of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, who was in turn the father of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Anne Colley,

Colley, who lived at Carbury Castle, County Kildare, died in 1719. His will was written on 18 June 1719 and proved on 27 July 1719.