Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington

Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington ( – 31 January 1758) was an Irish peer best known for being the grandfather of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

Biography Richard Colley (as he was christened) was born around 1690, the son of Henry Colley (died 1719) and Mary, daughter of Sir William Ussher. Wesley had a notable younger brother: Henry Colley (died 1723). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a BA in 1711 and an MA in 1714 as Richard Colley. In the intervening year he held the office of Chamberlain of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Upon the death of his cousin, Garret Wesley and his inheritance of the estates of Dangan and Mornington, Richard Colley (d. 1758) and his wife Elizabeth Sale (d. 17 June 1738) daughter of John Sale MP, Registrar of the Diocese of Dublin, on 23 December 1719. Garret Wesley's ( Wellesley's) offspring included Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley who married William Francis Crosbie Elizabeth, who married Chichester Fortescue