Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of AngleseyPC, DL (6 July 1797 – 7 February 1869), styled Lord Paget 1812 and 1815 and Earl of Uxbridge from 1815 to 1854, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1839 and 1841.
He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the King's Own (2nd Staffordshire) Light Infantry Militia from 1853 to 1855.[2]
Described as a keen sportsman, who devoted his time to shooting, coursing, racing and cricket, Anglesey helped found Worthing Cricket Club in Sussex in 1855.
Political career
Anglesey entered the House of Commons for Anglesey in 1820, a seat he held until 1832.[3] He was State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1828 and 1829. In 1832 he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title Baron Paget.[1] He served under Lord Melbourne as a Lord-in-waiting from 1837 to 1839 and as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1839[4] to 1841 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1839.[4] In 1854 he inherited the marquessate on the death of his father and also succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, an office he held until his death in 1869. He also inherited 29,700 acres which gave an astronomical annual income of £110,000 per annum.[5][6][7]
After his first wife's death in July 1828, he married, secondly, Henrietta Bagot, fourth daughter of Charles Bagot and Lady Mary Charlotte Wellesley, on 27 August 1833. They had seven children:
[a son] (4 May 1834 – 8 May 1834)
Plas Newydd 1900Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey (25 December 1835 – 13 October 1898); he married Elizabeth Norman (1841 – 5 November 1873) on 24 August 1858. He remarried Blanche Boyd (d. 14 August 1877) on 2 February 1874. They had one son. He remarried, again, Mary King on 26 June 1880.
After his second wife's early death in March 1844, aged 28, Lord Anglesey married thirdly, Ellen Burnand, daughter of George Burnand and former wife of J. W. Bell, on 8 March 1860. There were no children from this marriage. He died in Lambeth, London, aged 71, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his only son from his first marriage, Henry. The Marchioness of Anglesey died Worthing, Sussex, in June 1874.
References
^ abDod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 89.
^"leighrayment.com House of Commons: Andover to Armagh South". Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Plas Newydd". Anglesey Info. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
^Bateman, John (1883). The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book . Robarts - University of Toronto. London, Harrison.
^Chap, The (18 December 2013). "The Dancing Marquess". The Chap. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey