Family
He was the third son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley (1773–1847) and his first wife, Lady Charlotte Cadogan (c.1781–1853), daughter of Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan - the couple divorced in 1810. His father was the younger brother of the 1st Duke of Wellington. On 16 September 1856, at St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London, he married the Hon. Magdalen ‘Lily’ Montagu (1831–1919), daughter of Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby, and his wife, Magdalen Huxley. Their only child was a son, who died at the age of eighteen in 1883.
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