Lord Alfred Paget

Lord Alfred Henry Paget

He became a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. In 1837 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield and held the seat until 1865,^[1] when he was defeated by the Conservative Richard Dyott.^[4]

Paget was

He was the Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, 1846–1873, and Vice-Commodore, 1845-1846 and 1874–1888.^[6][7]

On 1 August 1874, he resigned the Chief Equerryship only.

Paget was a director of the North Staffordshire Railway Company between January 1854 and February 1875.^[9]

Personal life

In 1847, Paget was married to Cecilia Wyndham (1829–1914), second daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk. Their children were:^[9]

• Victoria Alexandrina Paget (1848–1859)^[9]
• Evelyn Cecilia Paget (1849–1904)^[9]
• Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget (1851–1928), who married American heiress Mary Fiske “Minnie” Stevens In 1878.^[9]
• Alfred Wyndham Paget (1852–1918)^[9]
• George Thomas Cavendish Paget (1853–1939), raised Paget's Horse for service in the Boer War.^[9]
• Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget (1854–1913), grandfather of Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon.^[9]
• Violet Mary Paget (1856–1908)^[9]
• Sydney Augustus Paget (1857–1916)^[9]
• Amy Olivia Paget (1858–1948)^[9]
• Alberta Victoria Paget (1859–1945)^[9]
• Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (1861–1949),^[10] who married Pauline Payne Whitney in 1895.^[11] After her death in 1916, he married Edith Starr Miller in 1921.^[12][13]
• Alice Maud Paget (1862–1925)[9]
• Alexandra Harriet Paget (1863–1944), who married Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke.^[9]
• Guinevere Eva Paget (1869–1894)^[9]

He lived at 42 Grosvenor Place, London, and at Melford Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk. He died in 1888 unexpectedly, on his yacht off Inverness.^[14]

In popular culture

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