Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey
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5th Marquess of Anglesey | |
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| Born | 25 December 1835 United Kingdom |
| Died | 13 October 1898 (aged 62) Whig |
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| Children | Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey |
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Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey and 5th Earl of Uxbridge Vice-Admiral of the Coast, North Wales and Carmarthenshire.[1]
Background
Anglesey was the second son of
Beaudesert (Staffordshire). He owned a large part of the County of Anglesey
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He was commissioned as a
2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers.[1]
He married firstly Elizabeth Norman, secondly Blanche Mary Boyd and thirdly from 1880 an American heiress, Mary "Minna" Livingston King, the widow of Hon. Henry Wodehouse.
He owned 29,700 acres, with most of his income coming from 17,000 acres in Stafford.[5] which generated annual income of £110,000 per annum.[6] Equivalent to £13 million per year in 2021).[7]
References
- ^ a b Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs, Volume 4, By Frederic Boase
- ^ Army List.
- ^ Capt P.C.G. Webster, The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield: Lomax, 1870; Appendix.
- ^ R.J. Smith & C.R. Coogan, The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794–1914, 15: Staffordshire Yeomanry, Feltham: Robert Ogilby Trust/Chippenham: Picton Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-9515714-6-X, p. 15.
- ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
- ^ Chap, The (18 December 2013). "The Dancing Marquess". The Chap. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
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