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Henry Colley (died 1700)

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Nationality
  
Irish

Died
  
1700

Role
  
Died 1700


Name
  
Henry Colley

Spouse(s)
  
Mary Usher

Parents
  
Dudley Colley

Henry Colley (died 1700) Henry Colley died 1723 Biography Politician

Children
  
Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington

Grandchildren
  
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington

Grandparents
  
Anne Peyton, Sir Henry Colley, Henry Colley

Great grandchildren
  
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

Henry Colley (1648–1700) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

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Henry Colley (died 1700) Henry Colley died 1584 Wikipedia

Biography

Henry Colley, born in 1648, was the son of Dudley Colley and Anne, daughter of Henry Warren.

Colley represented County Kildare from 1698 to 1699.

Family

In August 1694 Henry Colley married Mary, daughter of Sir William Ussher and Ursula, (daughter of Captain George St. Barbe). They had two sons and a daughter.

  • Henry (died 1723).
  • Richard, who became Baron Mornington. He adopted the name Wesley (Wellesley) upon inheritance of the estates of his cousin Garret Wesley (Wellesley) (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, who married a man named Pole and had a son called William.

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