Arthur Paget (diplomat)
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Sir Arthur Paget
.Life
Arthur Paget was the third son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife Jane Champagné daughter of Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise in Ireland. He was a younger brother of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and the older brother of Sir Edward Paget, an army officer and colonial governor.[2][3]
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take a degree.[4] At Oxford, Paget formed a close relationship with Cyril Jackson, Dean of Christ Church.[1]
Diplomatic career
In 1791, he entered the British diplomatic service. J. M. Rigg described Paget as 'a man of easy charm who made his way with little difficulty up the diplomatic ladder, assisted by his moderate whiggery.'
His next appointment was as
A dispatch in 1802, following Napoleon's creation of the
After his recall from Austria, he was sent to the
Retirement
Paget had been made a Privy Councillor and
Scandal
On 18 May 1808, Paget eloped with Augusta Jane Parker, Lady Boringdon (née Fane), daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, and wife of John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (later first Earl of Morley from 1815).[3] Paget married Lady Augusta on 16 February 1809, two days after her divorce from Lord Boringdon by an Act of Parliament.[4]
Family
Paget and Lady Augusta (née Fane) had issue:
- Agnes Charlotte Paget (d. 10 Mar 1858), married her first cousin Lord George Paget, son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
- Stewart Henry Paget (b. 30 May 1811 - d. 4 Aug 1869)
- Laura Caroline Jane Paget (b. c 1821 - d. 9 Dec 1871), married first cousin once removed Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore
- Cecil Augustus Paget (b. 1821 - d. 1843)
- Amelius Paget (b. 1821 - d. 1843)
- Rosa Maria Paget (b. c 1822)
- Rt. Hon. Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget (b. 16 Apr 1823 - d. 11 Jul 1896), married Countess Walburga Ehrengarde Helena von Hohenthal
He died on 26 July 1840 at his home at Grosvenor Street, London.[1]
Notes
- ^ required.)
- ^ Burke's Peerage (1930 edition), s.v. Anglesey, Marquis.
- ^ a b The Paget brothers, 1790–1840, ed. Lord Hylton [H. G. H. Jolliffe] (1918)
- ^ a b c The Paget Papers: Diplomatic and other correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Paget, G. C. B., 1794–1807, ed. A. B. Paget, 2 vols. (1896)
- ^ Diaries and correspondence of James Harris, first earl of Malmesbury, ed. third earl of Malmesbury [J. H. Harris], 4 vols. (1844)
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