William Pole Wellesley, fourth earl of Mornington

(1788-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mornington, William Long Wellesley, Earl of, 1788-1857 NRA: Wellesley William Pole-Tylney-Long- (1788-1857) 4th Earl of Mornington LBT ID: LdMorni4 VIAF ID: 18645736 LOC ID: n85048315	B/BAP: 1788-06-22 DIED: 1857-07-01
SOURCES: DNB ["William Wellesley Pole"]; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
Whig MP and rake, the nephew of the Duke of Wellington; in 1812 he married Catherine Tylney-Long whose fortune he squandered; in 1823 he eloped with the wife of Captain Thomas Bligh of the Coldstream Guards.
REFERENCES TO William Pole Wellesley, fourth earl of Mornington: Lord Byron to William Harness, 8 December 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 August 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 45 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 1 (March 1830) 129-43 Found 1: ¶ 6 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ n1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Chancery Suit Found 1: ¶ 16 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 17: Wellesleys Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 16 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1827