Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
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Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
In office 27 February 1828 – 22 January 1829 | |
Monarch | George IV |
Prime Minister | The Duke of Wellington |
Preceded by | The Marquess Wellesley |
Succeeded by | The Duke of Northumberland |
In office 4 December 1830 – 12 September 1833 | |
Monarch | William IV |
Prime Minister | The Earl Grey |
Preceded by | The Duke of Northumberland |
Succeeded by | The Marquess Wellesley |
Personal details | |
Born | Henry William Bayley 17 May 1768 London |
Died | 29 April 1854 Tory | (aged 85)
Spouses | |
Children | 18 |
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Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch/service | British Army |
Years of service | 1793–1854 |
Rank | Field Marshal |
Commands | 7th Light Dragoons |
Battles/wars | French Revolutionary Wars
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Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order |
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
Background, education and politics
He was born Henry Bayley, the eldest son of Henry Bayley-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife Jane (née Champagné), daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise, Ireland.[1] His father assumed the surname Paget in 1770. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.[2][3]
Paget entered parliament at the
Military career
At the outbreak of the
Paget was promoted to
Waterloo
During the Hundred Days he was appointed cavalry commander in Belgium, under the still resentful eye of Wellington.[16] He fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and at the Battle of Waterloo two days later, when he led the spectacular charge of the British heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column which checked and in part routed the French Army.[20]
One of the last cannon shots fired that day hit Paget in the right leg, necessitating its amputation.[16] According to anecdote, he was close to Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!" – to which Wellington replied, "By God, sir, so you have!"[21] The earliest account is that given in the diary of J. W. Croker on 8 December 1818, quoting Horace Seymour who was next to Uxbridge when he was hit and helped move the wounded general from the field: "Rode with Horace Seymour. He was next to Lord Uxbridge when he was shot; he cried out: “I have got it at last.” And the Duke of Wellington only replied: “No? Have you, by God?""[22] According to his aide-de-camp, Thomas Wildman, during the amputation Paget smiled and said, "I have had a pretty long run. I have been a beau these 47 years and it would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer."[21]
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Paget was created
Social life
Paget was the commodore of the Royal Irish Yacht Club, based at Sackville Street, Dublin (now O'Connell Street) in 1832 at the time when he served as lord-lieutenant of Ireland.[28]
Later career
Paget's support of the proceedings against
In December 1828, Paget addressed a letter to
Paget also served as honorary colonel of the 7th Light Dragoons[39] and later of the Royal Horse Guards.[40] He died of a stroke at Uxbridge House in Burlington Gardens on 29 April 1854 and was buried at Lichfield Cathedral, where a monument is erected to his honour.[41] He was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Henry.[42]
Family
Paget was first married on 5 July 1795 in London to Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers (16 December 1774 – 16 June 1835), daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey and Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey. They had eight children:[42]
- Lady Caroline Paget (6 June 1796 – 12 March 1874); married Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond. With her half-sister Lady Adelaide, she was one of the train-bearers to Queen Victoria at the 1838 coronation.[43]
- Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (6 July 1797 – 7 February 1869); married Eleanora Campbell, granddaughter of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
- Lady Jane Paget (13 October 1798 – 28 January 1876); married Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham.
- Lady Georgina Paget (29 August 1800 – 9 November 1875); married Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton.
- Lady Augusta Paget (26 January 1802 – 6 June 1872); married Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore.
- Captain Lord William Paget RN (1 March 1803 – 17 May 1873); married Frances de Rottenburg, daughter of Francis de Rottenburg
- Lady Agnes Paget (11 February 1804 – 9 October 1845); married Francis Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford
- Lord Arthur Paget (31 January 1805 – 28 December 1825)
In 1809, Paget scandalously eloped with Lady Charlotte Cadogan (born 12 July 1781), the wife of Henry Wellesley and daughter of Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan and Mary Churchill. On 28 March 1809, Charlotte's brother, Henry Cadogan, challenged Paget to a duel:
"My Lord, I hereby request you to name a time and place where I may meet you, to obtain satisfaction for the injury done myself and my whole family by your conduct to my sister. I have to add that the time must be as early as possible, and the place not in the immediate neighbourhood of London, as it is by concealment alone that I am able to evade the Police."[44]
The contest took place on Wimbledon Common on the morning of 30 May with Hussey Vivian as Lord Paget's second and Captain McKenzie as Cadogan's. Both men discharged their pistols, honour was satisfied and the parties left the field uninjured.[45]
Caroline Paget divorced her husband on 29 November 1810, after which he married Lady Charlotte.[42] They had ten children, of whom seven survived infancy:[42]
- Lady Emily Paget (4 March 1810 – 6 March 1893); married John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney.
- Lord Clarence Paget (17 June 1811 – 22 March 1895); married Martha Stuart, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Otway.
- Lady Mary Paget (16 June 1812 – 20 February 1859); married John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich. They were parents of Edward Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich.
- Lord Alfred Paget (29 June 1816 – 24 August 1888); married Cecilia, second daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk in 1847.
- Lord George Paget (16 March 1818 – 30 June 1880); a brigadier general of the British Army.
- patience games in the English language as well as other books and plays.[46]
- Lord Albert Paget (December 1821 – April 1822)
- Lord Albert Paget (29 May 1823 – died in infancy)
- Lady Eleanor Paget (21 May 1825 – died in infancy)
Gallery
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The Marquess of Anglesey at Waterloo, by Jan Willem Pieneman
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"Imaginary Meeting of Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Sir Henry William Page" by Constantinus Fidelio Coene, c. 1820
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The Marquess of Anglesey by Henry Edridge
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The Marquess of Anglesey, 1840
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The Marquess of Anglesey by George Dawe
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False leg at the Wellington Museum, Waterloo
References
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- ^ a b c Heathcote, p. 235
- ^ a b Stooks Smith, p. 594
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- ^ "No. 16972". The London Gazette. 4 January 1815. p. 18.
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- ^ a b "Obituary: The 7th Marquis of Anglesey". The Telegraph. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ A. McK. Annand, "COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR, K.C.H., M.P. (1791-1851)" in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 47, No. 190 (Summer 1969), pp. 86-88
- ^ BBC History Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6, June 2002
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- ^ "The Marquess of Anglesey's Column & Nelson's Monument". Places to visit. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
- ^ "No. 17340". The London Gazette. 14 March 1818. p. 473.
- ^ "No. 17505". The London Gazette. 12 August 1819. p. 1441.
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- ^ Heathcote, p. 237
- ^ "No. 15366". The London Gazette. 16 May 1801. p. 550.
- ^ "No. 20180". The London Gazette. 23 December 1842. p. 3820.
- ^ Paget, p. 35
- ^ a b c d G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 208. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
- ^ "Key to Mr Leslie's picture of Queen Victoria receiving the Holy Sacrament at her Coronation". National Portrait Gallery.
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- ^ Sir Walter Scott (1811). The Edinburgh Annual Register. John Ballantyne and Company. p. 151.
- ^ Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Patience or Solitaire (1914).
Sources
- Barbero, Alessandro (2005). The Battle: A New History of Waterloo. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-310-9.
- Fletcher, Ian (1999). Galloping at Everything. Staplehurst. ISBN 1-86227-016-3.
- Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary. Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-696-5.
- Paget, Edward Clarence (1913). Memoir of The Hon Sir Charles Paget, GCH (Brother of the "Waterloo" Marquess of Anglesey). Longmans, Green & Co.
- Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) [1844–1850]. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 16–17. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Cooper, Leo (1965). British Regular Cavalry 1644–1918. Chapman & Hall.
- Hibbert, Christopher (1967). Waterloo. Wordsworth Military Library. ISBN 978-1853266874.
- ASIN B0007IWAQC.)
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link - Roberts, Andrew (2005). Waterloo. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0007190768.
- Warner, Philip (1984). The British Cavalry. Dent and Sons. ISBN 978-0460046176.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
- Cates, William Leist Readwin (1878). . In Baynes, T. S. (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Portraits of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey at the National Portrait Gallery, London