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Honorary Lieutenant Colonel
RICHARD COLLEY WELLESLEY
Royal Engineers (Militia)  

by

Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis, MSCE, PE, MInstRE
Ó 2020.  All Rights Reserved.  

 Figure 1.  Arms of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, KG, PC.
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)  

1.  INTRODUCTION  

            The principal references used in the preparation of this narrative were from a number of sources.  They include census records, official registries in the United Kingdom, a number of family trees, Army Lists, and The London Gazette.  All sources are contained in the REFERENCE section at the end of the narrative and are cited throughout in the ENDNOTES.  Every effort has been made to accurately portray the life and military service of Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley.

            This research was prompted by a medallion that was awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley’s son who served in the Royal Horse Artillery.  The author purchased the medallion in 1997 but nothing was done in the way of research until 2020.  During the research process it was determined that Arthur Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington, was the Great Uncle of Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley and therefore the Great-Great Uncle of Captain Wellesley, the recipient of the Medallion.  With such a prominent person in the family tree this story had to be written.   

            Richard Colley Wellesley’s grandfather, a man by the same name, was born at Dangan Castle[1] in Meath, Ireland on the 20^th of June 1760.  Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), 1^st Marquess Wellesley, KG, KP, PC was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781 when he succeeded his father as 2^nd Earl of Mornington.  In 1799 he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley.[2]  His brother, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), later to be known as The Duke of Wellington, was born on the 29^th of April 1769 at Mornington House, 24 Upper Merion Street in Dublin, Ireland.  Richard Colley Wellesley’s sixth child was Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), who was born at St. George, Hanover Square, London on the 20^th of January 1794. 

2.  FAMILY INFORMATION AND EARLY LIFE

Figure 3.  The Wellesley Male Lineage.
(Images courtesy of Wikipedia)

Family Information

            Richard Colley Wellesley’s grandfather, a man by the same name, was born at Dangan Castle[3] in Meath, Ireland on the 20^th of June 1760.  Richard Colley Wellesley (1760-1842), 1^st Marquess Wellesley, KG, KP, PC was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781 when he succeeded his father as 2^nd Earl of Mornington.  In 1799 he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley.[4]  His brother, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), later to be known as The Duke of Wellington, was born on the 29^th of April 1769 at Mornington House, 24 Upper Merion Street in Dublin, Ireland.  Richard Colley Wellesley’s sixth child was Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), who was born at St. George, Hanover Square, London on the 20^th of January 1794.  Henry Wellesley was the father of the main character of this study, Richard Colley Wellesley (1842-1919).  

Figure 2.  Mornington House, 24 Upper Merrion Street, Dublin.
(Photograph courtesy of buildingsofireland)  

Early Life

            Richard Colley Wellesley was born on the 12^th of October 1842 at Woodmancote, Sussex and was baptized on the 29^th of January 1843.  Richard’s mother, Charlotte Anne Mackenzie Wellesley (1818-1845), née Van Dyck, had given birth to a daughter and a son before Richard was born; Henrietta Mary Wellesley (1839-1919) and Henry Robert Edward Wellesley (1838-1880).  After Richard’s birth Charlotte had another child, Charles Wellesley, who was born in December of 1844 and who died in infancy shortly after his birth.  Charlotte Wellesley died on the 24^th of September 1845 in Oxford.

            The 1851 Census of England shows the composition of the family of Henry Wellesley as of the 30^th of March of that year.

1851 Census of England

TABLE NOTES:

(a)    71 and 72 New Inn Hall was part of the University of Oxford.(b)   Henry Wellesley apparently was a professor at the University of Oxford with a large staff of personal servants.

(c)    In addition to personal servants for the household, Henry apparently had two additional servants that were provide by, and probably paid by, the university.

(d)   Ann Mackenzie was a Householder, who by definition was a person who owns or rents a house. 

(e)    One wonders why the household required a lady’s made, since Henry was a widower, Ann Mackenzie was a visitor and Henrietta was only 14 years old.

            Richard’s grandfather and namesake, had died in London on the 26^th of September 1842 and the old Duke of Wellington passed on at Walmer Castle in Kent on the 14^th of September 1852.

Figure 4.  Walmer Castle, Kent.
(Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia)

Figure 5.  The Old Duke of Wellington, c. 1845.
(Photograph courtesy of Wellington College International)           

            By the time of the 1861 Census of England, Richard was an 18-year old scholar, matriculated at Christ Church College in Oxford.  His father’s family was as shown in the table below.   

Figure 6. Tomb of the Duke of Wellington in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
(Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia)  

1861 Census of England  

 TABLE NOTES:

(a)    Herstmonceux is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, which includes Herstmonceux Castle.  The name comes from Anglo-Saxon hyrst, "wooded hill", plus the name of the Monceux family who were lords of the manor in the 12th century.

(b)   Henry Wellesley appears to be no longer associated with the University of Oxford.  He is the Rector of a church in his village. 

(c)    Ann Mackenzie is now shown as his Mother in Law rather than a Visitor.

(d)   All the Servants are household servants and none are associated with a college.

(e)    The Lady’s Maid now has two women to attend.

            Richard graduated from Christ Church College in 1865 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  His father died in Oxford on the 11^th of January 1866 and on the 9^th of April of that year Richard was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 3^rd Regiment of King’s Own Staffordshire Militia, which previously had been the 2^nd King’s Own Stafford Light Infantry with headquarters in Lichfield, North Staffordshire.[5] 

            On the 7^th of July 1866 Richard married Emma Julia Atkinson (1833-1909) at Newchurch, Hampshire.[6]  Emma gave birth to a son, Richard Colley Wellesley (1868-1898) at Melcombe Regis, near Weymouth, Dorset on the 21^st of Mary 1867.  He was baptized on the 16^th of June 1867 in Wyke Regis, Dorset. 

            Young Richard’s birth certificate lists his father’s occupation as a “Gentleman” from the Isle of Wight.  His mother is listed as “Emma Julia Wellesley, before Jones, formerly Atkinson.”  This notation indicates that Emma had previously been married to a man named Jones and that her maiden name was Atkinson.

            On the 11^th of February 1868 Richard Colley Wellesley was initiated into the Freemason Lodge at Ryde on the Isle of Wight.[7]  Presumably the Wellesley family was living on the Isle of Wight during this period.

            In 1871 the family was living in St. Helens on the Isle of Wight as shown by the 1871 Census of England.  Historically part of Hampshire, the island became a separate administrative county in 1890.  In some documents there often is confusion as to where the Isle of Wight belongs.  Prior to 1890 the towns on the island sometimes are shown as part of Hampshire and at other times they are shown as being on the Isle of Wight.  In 1871 St. Helens was shown as being part of the Isle of Wight.

1871 Census of England

   TABLE NOTES:

(a)    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Fund Holder as one that has money invested in the British public funds.  It appears that this might have been Wellesley occupation; that is, investing his own money and money of others in public funds.  Although he served in the Militia, his military service obviously was not his primary occupation.  His father appears to have been a wealthy man, so Richard surely inherited much from him.

(b)   Ella and Mary Jones obviously were Emma’s daughters from her previous marriage.  Their father appears to have been a clergyman.

            Richard Colley Wellesley was promoted to the rank of Captain in the 3^rd Stafford Regiment of Militia on the 1^st of June 1877.  On the 18^th of February 1880 his brother, Major Henry Robert Edward Wellesley, Madras Cavalry, died at Malta on his way home from India.[8] 

            In 1881 the Wellesley family was still residing on the Isle of Wight, although their residence had changed, as shown in the table below.

1881 Census of England

TABLE NOTES:

(a)    For this census Wellesley chose to list his occupation as his military rank and regiment rather than his civil occupation.

(b)   Mary Jones somehow has become Amy Jones in this census, obviously an error.  Both Mary (Amy) and Ella are unmarried, or spinsters, to use the vernacular of the time.

(c)    All of the servants are foreign-born and each from a different country in Europe.  This is a rather curious situation.

            At the time of this census young Richard Colley Wellesley was at Wellington College in Berkshire.  His matriculation at Wellington College was to be expected since it was built as a national monument to the first Duke of Wellington in honour of whom the College is named.  Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone in 1856 and inaugurated the school's public opening on the 29^th of January 1859, thus honoring Richard’s esteemed Great-Great Uncle.

            On the 13^th of May 1885 young Richard Colley Wellesley left Wellington College and entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.  In 1886 he was awarded the Woolwich-Sandhurst Bronze Medallion for Athletics.[9]

            While young Richard was at Woolwich, his father was granted the honorary rank of Major in the 3^rd Battalion, the Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment).[10]  On the 16^th of February 1887 young Richard graduated from the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery.[11]

            The elder Wellesley was promoted to the substantive rank of Major in the North Staffordshire Regiment on the 14^th of January 1888 and then on the 28^th of January he was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the regiment.[12]  

3.  COMMISSIONING AND TRAINING  

Commissioning

            Section 2 of this narrative described the progression of Richard Colley Wellesley through the officer ranks of the North Staffordshire Regiment up to early 1888.  On the 9^th of June 1888 he was appointed a Captain in the Thames and Medway Militia Divisions of the Royal Engineers and at the same time was appointed an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel.[13]  Why or how this transformation of his Militia service came about is not clear.  Nevertheless, in June of 1888 he found himself serving with the Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers (Militia) at St. Mary’s Barracks at Chatham, Kent.  The London Gazette of 8 June 1888 reads as follows regarding his appointment:

“The Thames and Medway Division, Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel R.C. Wellesley, from the 3^rd Battalion, the Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) to be Captain.”

            The entry causes some confusion since he was a Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the North Staffordshire Regiment, but his new appointment reduces him to the rank of Captain while still maintaining his honorary rank.  One also wonders what training or experience he had in either military or civilian life to suddenly become an officer in the Submarine Miners, R.E. 

            The Submarine Mining Militia was first raised in 1878 for the purpose of undertaking the water work of submarine mining at the principal ports.  It was formed as one corps, with headquarters at Portsmouth.  In 1884 the corps was given a company organization, with companies allotted to Portsmouth (2), Plymouth (1) and Thames and Medway (1).  In 1888 the battalion organization was abolished and local Militia Divisions were formed at each of these commands, and in addition, new divisions were formed at Pembroke Dock, the Severn and Harwich.  Subsequently the Portsmouth Division was split in 1893 into two distinct organizations for Spithead and Needles, and the Chatham Division in 1892 into separate corps for the Thames and Medway.  

Training

            During his time with the infantry, between 1866 and 1887, Wellesley had attended military training for 24 days each year, with the exception of 43 days in 1872 and 54 days in both 1878 and 1882.  His training with the Submarine Mining Militia would increase to 55 days each year.

            The officers of the Militia at first went through the full course of submarine mining as laid down for Royal Engineers officers, but about 1886 this course was assimilated to that laid down for Volunteers and was divided into three parts; Part I (lasting one month) was the shore work of submarine mining, Part II (also one month) consisted of the water work, and Part III (two months) was for the electrical work.  Parts I and II were obligatory before promotions, but Part III was optional.  In addition to these courses, 25 per cent of the total strength of officers of a division could be attached annually to the local company of Royal Engineers for defence practice for two months, during which period they took their full share of regimental and mining work.[14] Just how much of this training was received by Wellesley is not know; however, he surely received enough to ultimately have him rise to the command of a submarine mining division.[15]        

4.  ASSIGNMENTS AND CAMPAIGN SERVICE  

            As an officer in the Militia, Wellesley never had any campaign service.  His assignments in the Infantry Militia have been described in Section 2 of this narrative.  Section 4 will discuss his assignments with the Royal Engineers Militia.

            On the 4^th of June 1890 Wellesley was promoted to Major in the Royal Engineers Militia.  He was designated the Commander of The Medway Division of Submarine Miners stationed at Sheerness. At the time he was living in London as shown in the 1891 Census of England.  

1891 Census of England

           
            At the time of his first assignment to The Medway Division, Sappers and Miners, it actually was a part of The Thames and Medway Militia Division of the Submarine Miners. On the 1^st of April 1892 The Thames and Medway Division was split into The Thames Militia Division and The Medway Militia Division, two separate commands.  Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel R.C. Wellesley was transferred to The Thames Division along with the following officers:

·         Captain Ernest W. Guinness

·         Captain Robert Murray Laws

·         Lieutenant and Instructor of Musketry S.G. Johnson

·         Second Lieutenant Henry Mansford

·         Second Lieutenant F.V. Beste

NOTE: The London Gazette of 4 March 1892 originally assigned Wellesley and the above-mentioned officers to The Medway Division.  They subsequently were reassigned to The Thames Division in the London Gazette of 15 March 1892.  

            During the period from 1895 to 1898 Wellesley maintained a residence at 4, The Terrace, Isle of Wight.  On the 29^th of October 1898 Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Richard Colley Wellesley retired from The Medway Division, R.E. (Militia), Submarine Miners with permission to retain his rank and to wear the prescribed uniform on his retirement.[16]

 5.  PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

a.  Promotions:  Wellesley received the following promotions during his time in service:

 b.      Appointments:  Wellesley received the following appointments during his time in service:

 6. MILITARY TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS 

a.  Military Training: R.C. Wellesley attended many training sessions and camps while in the 3^rd Staffordshire Regiment of Militia.  These sessions have been outlined in Section 4 above as far as years and number of days that have been found in his Statement of Services.  He also has been identified as having completed the Submarine Mining Course.

b.  Qualifications: It must be assumed that he was a qualified infantry officer at company level and at battalion staff level at that he was a qualified Submarine Mining officer.    

7. MEDALS, AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

            This research has not uncovered any medals, awards or decorations that Richard Colley Wellesley may have been awarded.  He may have been awarded the Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Medal in 1887 or the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal in 1897, or the King Edward VII Coronation Medal in 1901, although the awards of any of these medals cannot be confirmed.  No rolls have been found for Militia units that show the award of these medals to Wellesley.  His Statement of Services, rather skimpy in details, does not indicate that he was awarded any medals.  His service during the Great War of 1914 to 1918 will be discussed in Section 10 below.  No evidence of any medals received during that war has been uncovered.

            While at the Royal Military Academy his son was awarded a medallion for athletic achievement.  Around the rim the medallion reads: ATHLETICS – WOOLWICH and SANDHURST.    In the center of the medallion are the shields of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich (left) and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst (right) with the intertwined letters RMA above the shields and RMC below the shields.  On the reverse of the medallion, his name is engraved R. C. Wellesley over the date 1886.  The medallion was presented in a leather felt-lined box from E. Tyler, Medallist, 42, Exmouth Street, London. W.C.  The medallion is bronze, 2 inches in diameter and 0.2 inches thick.  It weighs 2.5 ounces.  Young Richard Colley Wellesley would go on to earn a medal for service in India as a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery.  He also would be Mentioned in Despatches by the Major General commanding his division.

Figures 8 and 9.  RMA/RMC Athletics Medallion of R.C. Wellesley.
(From the author’s collection)  

Figure 10.  The Medallion in the Presentation Box.
(From the author’s collection)

9.  RELEASE FROM SERVICE

             Lieutenant Colonel Wellesley was released from service (the Reserve of Officers) at the time of his death on the 4^th of December 1919.  His total service was reckoned as shown in the tables below.  As his service was all at Home, only the unit and period of service will be shown.

(†) Indicates his date of death.           

            Richard Colley Wellesley lived for 77 years, 1 month and 23 days.  He spent over 53 of those years in the service of the Crown, albeit not in the Regular Army or on active service.  This has to be a record for anyone who served in the Militia forces.  Now not all of that time was spent on military duties, since as a Militia officer he was a “part-time” soldier.  However, one must credit him for devotion to military service.  Perhaps the memory of the Old Duke of Wellington prompted this devotion as did his son’s service in the Royal Horse Artillery.

10.  POST SERVICE LIFE  

            On the 16^th of November 1898, following his retirement from the active Militia, Wellesley was appointed the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in The Medway Division, Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers (Militia).  Major Ernest W. Guinness took command of the unit at Sheerness and was assigned the following officers:

·         Captain Robert Murray Lawes

·         Lieutenant Henry Mansford (Instructor of Musketry) (*)

·         Lieutenant Charles G. Manners-Sutton

(*) Lieutenant S.G. Johnson had been posted to The Falmouth Division in 1893.

            The Medway Division was embodied on the 14^th of April 1900 at Garrison Point Fort in Sheerness because of the war in South Africa (see Figure 11 below).  On the 13^th of October 1900 it was stood down, probably because no effective use could be made of the unit and there was no threat to ports or harbors in the UK from the Boers in South Africa.

            In 1904 Major Guinness retired and relinquished command of The Medway division to Major Lawes.  Lawes relinquished command on the 1^st of April 1907 when The Medway Division, Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers (Militia) was disbanded.  On the 25^th of April 1908 Wellesley resigned his appointment as the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the unit and was placed on the list of Reserve of Officers.  Presumably, during the period that he acted as the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, Wellesley provided advice and assistance to the Division commander and took part in all formal occasions and ceremonies in which the Division was involved.  All this ended when the unit was disbanded.  

Figure 11.  Map of Sheerness and Garrison Point Fort.
(Map courtesy of Wikipedia)

            From 1912 to 1914 Wellesley was on the Unattached List and was therefore free to pursue travel plans.  On the 4^th of February 1913 he departed Southampton for Colombo, Ceylon aboard the S.S. Koningin der Nederlanden presumably as a tourist.  He made another journey as a tourist on the 31^st of March 1914, which time from Southampton aboard the M.S. Koningin Emma (later HMS Queen Emma) bound for Genoa, Italy.  Both ships were of Dutch registry. The latter ship was renamed HMS Queen Emma and was converted to a troopship in Belfast for World War 2. During the war her main role was transporting British Commandos, and she participated in the Lofoten Islands Raid and the Dieppe Raid.

Figure 12.  S.S. Koningin der Nederlanden.
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

Figure 13.  M.S. Koningin Emma.
(Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia)

            On the 24^th of October 1914 Wellesley was given a Special Appointment as the Deputy Inspector General of Communications with the rank of Temporary Staff Lieutenant.[17]  On the 7^th of January 1915 he was listed in the April 1915 Army List as an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, graded as a Staff Lieutenant 1^st Class on the staff of the Inspector General of Communications.  He had to relinquish this position due to ill health on the 1^st of September 1916.[18]  Nothing is known of his qualifications for this position or what work he accomplished during the Great War.  No Medal Index Card can be found for him, so he may not have received either the War Medal or the Victory Medal for his service. 

            In 1919 Wellesley’s name appears in the June Army List on the Unattached List, Army Reserve.  He died on the 4^th of December 1919 at 17 Park Lane in Middlesex and was buried on the 10^th of December in Putney Vale Cemetery, Wandsworth, Surrey.[19]  Wellesley’s will was filed for probate in London on the 2^nd of March 1920.  His address is shown as the Junior United Service Club on Regent Street, Middlesex.  His effects, amounting to £22,047-6s-6d (about $1,357,300 US in 2020 currency) , were listed as going to Francis Sherlock Randolph, Solicitor and the Public Trustee.

11. ADDITIONAL FAMILY INFORMATION

Parents  

            Richard Colley Wellesley’s mother, Charlotte Anne Mackenzie Wellesley, had died early in his life, on the 24^th of September 1845 in Oxford.  His father Henry Wellesley also died in Oxford on the 11^th of January 1866.

Siblings

            Both of Richard’s brothers have been mentioned in Section 2 of this narrative.  His sister, Henrietta Mary Wellesley, died in Shifnal, Shropshire on the 24^th of July 1919.  She had remained unmarried her entire life.

Marriage

            Richard’s first wife, Emma Julia Atkinson, has been discussed in Section 2 of this narrative.  He married a second time on the 15^th of August 1910 to Emma Twynam (1853-1931), the widow of the late Captain Henry Frederick Twynam (1839-1903).  Emma’s maiden name was Allfrey.  Twynam had been an officer in the 3^rd Dragoon Guards and later served in the Royal Flintshire Rifle Militia.  He was the Director if the Isle of Wight Railway Company. He passed away on the 1^st of June 1903 at Victoria Chambers in Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Son

            As previously mentioned, R.C. Wellesley had a son by his first wife.  The younger R.C. Wellesley, whose medallion prompted this research, served in the Royal Horse Artillery and his service is summarized below:

13 May 1885:  Entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.

16 Feb 1887:   Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery.

16 Feb 1890:   Promoted Lieutenant while serving in “L” Battery, R.H.A.

     Sep 1882:   On active service in India.

1 Aug 1896:    Married Emily Mobray, 25, the adopted daughter of Lord Truro.

                        The couple was married at St. Edwards Roman Catholic Church in the District of St. George in the County of London. The bride and groom were living at 56 Curzon Street in London when they married.                          (The elder Richard Colley Wellesley and family were Church of England, so this marriage may have raised some eyebrows).  

1 Sep 1897:     Promoted Captain while still serving with “L” Battery, R.H.A.

11 Jan 1898:    Captain R.C. Wellesley was mentioned in the despatches of Major General Sir Bindon Blood for service with the Malakand Field Forces.  He was awarded the India General Service Medal 1895 with two                         clasps [PUNJAB FRONTIER 1897-8] and [TIRAH 1897-8].  He served as the Orderly Officer to Brigadier General Sir Richard Westmacott in the 1^st Brigade, Mohmand Field Force and in the 4^th Brigade during                         the Tirah Expedition.  

7 Nov 1898:    Captain Richard Colley Wellesley died at Sheerness, Kent of enteric (typhoid) fever after fighting the illness for 36 days. His residence at the time was 7 Marine Parade in Sheerness.  The informant of his death was one                            Mary Ann Ewan, presumably a servant in his household.  This illness probably was contracted while he was serving in India. A life sadly cut short at 31 years of age.

Figure 14.  Major General Sir Bindon Blood (leaning on gun barrel) and his Staff: Malakand Field Force, 8th September 1897 to 12th October 1897 on the North-West Frontier of India.
(Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia)  

Figure 15.  The India General Service Medal 1895Of the Type Awarded to Captain Richard Colley Wellesley, R.H.A.
(Image courtesy of medals)

REFERENCES:

Army Lists  

1. The Army List, June 1890, p. 252.
2. The Army List, March 1898, p. 465.
3. Hart’s Annual Army List, 1903, p. 1019.
4. The Army List, June 1903, p. 466.
5. Hart’s Annual Army List, 1906, p. 604.
6. The Army List, June 1907, p 466.
7. The Army List, December 1912, p. 1847.
8. The Army List, April 1914, p. 1847.
9. The Army List, April 1915, pp. 50 & 1847.
10. The Army List, June 1919, p. 1847.

Books  

Baker Brown, W.  History of Submarine Mining in the British Army.  W. & J. Mackay & Co., Ltd., Chatham, Kent, 1910, pp. 166 and 168.  

Census  

1. 1851 Census of England (HO 107/1728).
2. 1861 Census of England (RG 9/568).
3. 1871 Census of England (RG 10/1166.
4. 1881 Census of England (RG 11/1178).
5. 1891 Census of England (RG 12/33).

College Registers  

Oxford University, 1886, p. 1522.  

Documents  

1. Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth, Richard Colley Wellesley, General Register Office, BXA 146087 (21 May 1867), dated 16 June 1975.
2. Freemasons United Grand Lodge of England Register, 1751-1921 (Ryde, Isle of Wight)
3. Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage, Richard Colley Wellesley and Emily Mobray, General Register Office, MXF 017528 (1 August 1896), dated 6 September 2010.
4. Medal Roll, India General Service Medal 1895 (Captain R.C. Wellesley, R.H.A.), WO 100/84 (X/J6039).
5. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death, Captain Richard Colley Wellesley, R.A., General Register Office, DX 216287 (7 November 1898), dated 17 February 1975.
6. 1920 Probate Calendar.
7. UK City and County Directories, 1766-1946.
8. Obituary

Family Trees  

1. Richard Colley Wellesley (AJT01).
   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/70543637/person/392229487084/facts
   
2. Richard Colley Wellesley (stepwright).

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/33973537/person/28138313573/facts?_phsrc=iWN4017&_phstart=successSource

3. Richard Colley Wellesley (petergyton).

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/19959988/person/260147624281/facts

4. Richard Colley Wellesley (Stephen Savage).

https://www.ancestry.com/family-ree/person/tree/103969953/person/370037013714/facts

5. Richard Colley Wellesley – son (Martin Smith)

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/20636467/person/972092581/facts?_phsrc=iWN4039&_phstart=successSource  

Internet Web Sites  

1. Wikipedia. Richard Wellesley, 1^st Marquess Wellesley.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wellesley,_1st_Marquess_Wellesley  

2. Garth Jones:  Submarine Miners of the Royal Engineers and the First World War.

https://www.garethjones.org/margaret_siriol_colley/submarine_miners.htm  

3. Buildings of Ireland.

www.buildingsofireland.ie  

London Gazette  

1. The London Gazette, April 13, 1886.
2. The London Gazette, June 15, 1866.
3. The London Gazette, January 13, 1888, p. 361.
4. The London Gazette, January 27, 1888, p. 613.
5. The London Gazette, June 8, 1888.
6. The London Gazette, February 28, 1890.
7. The London Gazette, March 4, 1892, p. 1275.
8. The London Gazette, March 15, 1892, p1516.
9. The London Gazette, September 14, 1897, p. 5106.
10. The London Gazette, January 11, 1898, pp. 147 and 162.
11. The London Gazette, October 28, 1898, p. 6303.
12. The London Gazette, November 15, 1898, p. 6694.
13. The London Gazette, August 25, 1908, p. 6221.
14. Supplement to the London Gazette, 9 November 1914, p. 9109.
15. The London Gazette, 3 October 1916, p. 9558.

Medal Naming  

Engraving on the medallion – name and date.  

Officers Service Records  

Statement of Service in Detail (SOS).  

Passenger Lists  

1. S.S. Koningin Der Nederlanden, 4 February 1913.
2. S.S. Koningin Emma, 31 March 1914.

ENDNOTES: