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Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, the Glossary

Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, (17 June 1804 – 15 July 1884), known as The Lord Cowley between 1847 and 1857, was a British diplomat.^[1]

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Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as British prime minister. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Knights of the Garter and Wellesley family.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan

Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (29 September 1728 – 3 April 1807) was a British peer and Whig politician.

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Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke

Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, (23 April 1836 – 18 May 1897), styled Viscount Royston until 1873, was a British aristocrat, Conservative politician and dandy.

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Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros

Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley (24 May 1769 – 9 January 1831), also known as Lady Henry FitzGerald, was an Anglo-Irish suo jure peeress.

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Charlotte Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey

Charlotte Sloane Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (Cadogan; 10 July 1781 – 8 July 1853), formerly known as Lady Charlotte Wellesley, was the second wife of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Charlotte Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey are Wellesley family.

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Cheshunt

Cheshunt is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, England, north of Central London on the River Lea and Lee Navigation and directly south of Broxbourne.

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Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, (15 May 1797 – 28 July 1863), styled Viscount Normanby between 1812 and 1831 and known as The Earl of Mulgrave between 1831 and 1838, was a British Whig politician and author. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Knights of the Garter and peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Draycot Cerne

Draycot Cerne (Draycott) is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sutton Benger, in Wiltshire, England, about north of Chippenham.

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Earl Cowley

Earl Cowley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Earl Cowley are Wellesley family.

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Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons

Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, (21 November 179023 November 1858) was an eminent British Admiral of the Royal Navy, and diplomat, who ensured Britain's victory in the Crimean War, during which he was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, by his contribution at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) with both the Royal Navy and the British Army. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons are diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Felice Orsini

Felice Orsini (10 December 1819 – 13 March 1858) was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.

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Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame

Francis Leveson Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, ("barty of tame"; 17 August 1844 – 26 September 1919) was a British diplomat. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, diplomatic peers and Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

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German Confederation

The German Confederation was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe.

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Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley

Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley GCB (20 January 1773 – 27 April 1847) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and politician. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and Wellesley family.

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Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington

Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington (5 April 1846 – 8 June 1900) was a British peer and Conservative Party politician. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington are Wellesley family.

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Hertford Street

Hertford Street is a street in central London's Mayfair district.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster

Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC (Ire) (29 May 1722 – 19 November 1773), styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

The British Ambassador to France is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Switzerland is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Swiss Confederation, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Switzerland.

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List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Germany

The British ambassador to Germany is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Germany.

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Lord Augustus Loftus

Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904), was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Lord Augustus Loftus are Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

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Lord Henry FitzGerald

Lord Henry FitzGerald PC (Ire) (30 July 1761 – 9 July 1829) was the fourth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster and the Duchess of Leinster (née Lady Emily Lennox).

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Order of the Garter

The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace.

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Richard Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons

Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons (26 April 1817 – 5 December 1887) was a British diplomat, who was the favourite diplomat of Queen Victoria, during the four great crises of the second half of the 19th century: Italian unification, the American Civil War, the Eastern Question, and the replacement of France by Germany as the dominant Continental power following the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Richard Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons are ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria.

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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley are diplomatic peers, Knights of the Garter and Wellesley family.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Second Italian War of Independence

The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; German: Sardinischer Krieg; French: Campagne d'Italie), was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the process of Italian Unification.

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Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet

Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet (1800–1886) was an English diplomat and writer.

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St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style.

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Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe

Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, (4 November 1786 – 14 August 1880) was a British diplomat who became best known as the longtime British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley and Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe are diplomatic peers, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Knights of the Garter and peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wellesley,_1st_Earl_Cowley

Also known as Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, Henry Wellesley, 2nd Baron Cowley.

Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, the Glossary

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Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

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