Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, KG, GCB, PC ( July 17, 1804 *, † July 15, 1884 ) was a British diplomat.
Wellesley was the son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, the youngest brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley.
Diplomatic career
He pursued a diplomatic career in 1832 and embassy attaché of his father in Vienna. He then worked as a secretary of legation in Stuttgart and from 1843 in Constantinople Opel, where he served from July 1846 while Sir Stratford Canning's absence for a year as a business support.
His father's death in 1847, Wellesley back to the UK and the House of Lords; but he was already appointed in January 1848, ambassador in Switzerland and soon added it as a British envoy at the German federal government to Frankfurt, to represent the United Kingdom at the newly created German central power. He protested there against the entry of Austria into the German Confederation total. After restitution of the Bundestag he was accredited in this.
Minister to Paris, then the most important posts of British diplomacy, appointed early in 1852, claimed to Wellesley, where the cabinets and the ruling party in the home changed there over 15 years on several occasions. His tenure covered substantial parts of the reign of Napoleon III. from. He was able to master several diplomatic crises between the two countries. In 1856 he was part of the delegation of the United Kingdom in negotiations for the Third Treaty of Paris to end the Crimean War. In 1860, even a trade agreement, the Cobden -Chevalier Treaty, concluded. Seven years later Wellesley resigned from his post on its own initiative.
Privacy and Title
Wellesley married in 1833 Olivia Cecilia FitzGerald, a daughter of Charlotte FitzGerald -de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros, and granddaughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, with whom he had three sons and two daughters.
On April 11 1857 he was elevated because of his services to Earl Cowley and Viscount Dangan, County Meath. This includes both titles, as its inherited from the father, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
During his retirement Wellesley lived on an estate in Wiltshire, which he had inherited from a relative. He died there in 1884.