William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley - Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington PC ( born May 20, 1763 in Dangan Castle, County Meath, Ireland, † February 22, 1845 in London) was an Irish- British naval officer and politician, mint master of the Royal Mint from 1814 to 1823 postmaster General from 1834 to 1835.

William was born and baptized in 1763 when William Wesley. In December 1781, after he had inherited the property of his cousin William Pole, he changed his name officially to William Wesley poles and 1789 to William Wellesley - Pole. He was a younger brother of Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, the British rule expanded enormously as Governor General of India. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the victor of Waterloo, was his younger brother.

Wellesley - Pole attended from 1774 to 1776 Eton College in Berkshire and served until 1782 as an officer in the Royal Navy. He sat from 1783 to 1790 and from 1801 to 1821 as a Tory for various constituencies in the Irish and the British House of Commons.

In various cabinets he served as a subordinate minister, especially so as the second highest official of the crown in Ireland after the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

In 1821 he was appointed as Baron Maryborough to peer in the peerage of the United Kingdom and obtained a seat in the House of Lords. In 1842 he followed his brother Richard, who had no sons who survived him, as Earl of Mornington ( in the Peerage of Ireland ) to.

Wellesley - Pole was in 1784 with Katherine Elizabeth Forbes, a granddaughter of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, married. The couple had three daughters, and a son, William Pole - Tylney - Long - Wellesley, who inherited the title of his father after his death in 1845.