GRADUATION: Glasgow University||honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
, he declined the star and badge of the Order of St. Patrick, made from the jewels of Tipoo Sahib, offered to him by the army (he was afraid it might diminsh the prize money he was due)
OFFICE: M.P. for Beeralston
OFFICE: M.P. for Saltash
OFFICE: M.P. for Windsor
OFFICE: M.P. for Old Sarum
OFFICE: Custos Rotulorum for County Meath
INVEST: Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Ireland]
INVEST: Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
OFFICE: a Lord of the Treasury
OFFICE: a Commissioner for Indian Affairs
OFFICE: Governor of Madras
OFFICE: Governor-General of Bengal|| ||During this period, he effected the capture of Seringaputam and the complete destruction of Mysore
OFFICE: Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer [Ireland]
INVEST: Knight of the Crescent of Turkey
OFFICE: Ambassador to the Centra Junta of Spain
OFFICE: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
INVEST: Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.)
INVEST: Knight of the Lion and Sun of Persia
OFFICE: Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland||Viceroy
OFFICE: Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland||Viceroy
OFFICE: Lord Steward of the Household
OFFICE: Lord Chamberlain of the Household
In May 1799 he wrote privately to Lord Grenville: "To talk like Lord Abercorn-you will gain much credit by conferring some high and brilliant honour upon me immediately. The Garter would be much more acceptable to me than any additional title, nor would any title be an object, which should not raise me to the same rank which was given to Lord Cornwallis." He was greatly vexed at not obtaining a Marquessate of Great Britain like his predecessor, Lord Cornwallis, but it was explained to him that the latter was promoted from an Earldom of Great Britain, while in his case the Earldom was of Ireland. On his retirement from public life he sought further promotion. Lord Broughton records him saying to him: "you got 20,000 for me from the Court of Directors; you ought now to get a dukedom for me from the Queen"
Farington writes "Laurence spoke of Lord Wellesley as having ruined His fortune by His excessive expenses on Women. With all his abilities He has so great a share of vanity that at the age of about 53 Laurence has noticed, when His Lordship sat to him for His Portrait, that his Lips were painted"
In late life he used to wear his garter, star and ribbon over his dressing gown
Lord Macauley writes of him in June 1813, "he has made a great and splendid figure in history, and his weaknesses, though they make his character less worthy of respect, make it more interesting as a study"
P.E. Roberts writes in 1929 that while no doubt his dispatches from India were pompous and inflated, but "they were massivley impressive in their power, their logical force, and their tone of decision... He was an administrator and ruler of wonderful achievement, and glorious capacity"