Henry Colley (died 1700)

Henry Colley (1648–1700) was an Irish Member of Parliament.[lower-alpha 1]

Henry Colley
Born1648
Died1700
NationalityIrish
Spouse(s)Mary Usher
Parent(s)Dudley Colley
Anne Warren

Biography

Henry Colley, born in 1648, was the son of Dudley Colley and Anne, daughter of Henry Warren.[1]

Colley represented County Kildare from 1698 to 1699.[2]

Family

In August 1694 Henry Colley married Mary, daughter of Sir William Ussher and Ursula, (daughter of Captain George St. Barbe).[1] They had six sons and six daughters, including:

  • Henry (died 1723).[1]
  • Richard, who became Baron Mornington.[3] He adopted the name Wesley (Wellesley) upon inheritance of the estates of his cousin Garret Wesley (Wellesley) (d.1728) ; he also took the name in right of his wife Elizabeth Sale ( d.1738) as the Wellesley heiress through her grandmother, Catherine Wellesley Cusack (d 1598), daughter of Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland , who was the son of Alison de Wellesley. Richard and Elizabeth Wellesley were the parents of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, who was in turn the father of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.[4]
  • Anne,[1] who married a man named Pole and had a son called William.

Notes

  1. Henry Colley' was also known as Henry Cowley.[1]
  1. Lundy 2011, p. 10660 cites Mosley 1999, p. 2971
  2. Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
  3. Lundy 2011, p. 10645 § 106449 cites Cokayne 2000, p. 235.
  4. The Peerage

References

  • Lundy, Darryl (22 January 2011), Henry Colley, The Peerage, p. 10660 § 106593. Endnotes:
    • Cokayne, G.E. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, IX (new, reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 235
    • Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106th, in 2 volumes ed.), Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage, p. 2971


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