Gerald Valerian Wellesley
- Gerald Valerian Wellesley
Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1809, London–17 September 1882, Hazelwood, near Watford) was a Church of England clergyman who became dean of Windsor.
Family
He was the third son of Henry Wellesley, first 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.
Life
Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge (graduating as MA in 1830), he was ordained in 1831. His first living was a family one at Stratfield Saye (1836-1854), during which he became queen Victoria's resident chaplain (in 1849), leading to his appointment as Dean in 1854. Tactful and gentlemanly in demeanour, religiously analogous to the queen, and a preacher of short sermons, he became "one of Victoria's most valued advisers" [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29003?docPos=6 Dictionary of National Biography] ] , doing "everything on all sad and happy occasions to make me comfortable" [Beloved mama: private correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German crown princess, 1878–1885, ed. R. Fulford (1981), page 125] and acting as an intermediary between her and Gladstone on both ecclesiastical and secular matters. Her appreciation of him was summed up in what she required in his successor as dean::a tolerant, liberal minded broad church clergyman who at the same time is pleasant socially & is popular with all Members and classes of her Household,—who understands her feelings not only in ecclesiastical but also in social matters—a good kind man without pride. [A. Ponsonby, Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's private secretary: his life from his letters (1942), pages 62–3] Gladstone frequently sought his advice on patronage questions, noting in his diary at the time of Wellesley's death: :‘I reckoned his life the most valuable in the Church of England’.
On his death he was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor and his widow was appointed "extra woman of the bedchamber" in November 1882.
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