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first marquis wellesley

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Welles⋅ley

  [welz-lee]
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–noun
1. Arthur. Wellington, 1st Duke of.
2. his brother, Robert Col⋅ley  [kol-ee] , 1st Marquis, 1760–1842, British statesman and administrator, born in Ireland: governor general of India 1797–1805.
3. a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston. 27,209.
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Welles·ley   (wělz'lē)   
British politician and colonial administrator who expanded the British Empire in India and sought reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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