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Son of Marquess Richard Wellesley (q.v.) a\nd Hyacinth Roland (q.v). Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, curator of the Bodleian Library, curator of Ashmolean Museum and Taylor Institute.
- 1 2 Alfred Webb (1878). "A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office Or by Their Writings". M.H. Gill & son . Retrieved 25 May 2018.
The Marquis left no legitimate children. His son Henry Wellesley, D.D. (born 1792; died 1866), Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, the author of several works, was a man of the most cultivated tastes; his knowledge of Spanish and Italian art and literature 'was supreme'.
- ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ↑ John McClintock; James Strong (1891). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 12. Harper & Brothers. p. 902. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
He was the author of Anthologica Polyglotta; or, A Selection of Versions in Various Languages, Chiefly from the Greek Anthology (1849);--and Stray Notes of Shakespeare (1865).
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