Everything about Henry Paget 1st Earl Of Uxbridge totally explained
Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge PC (
18 June 1744 –
13 March 1812) was born Henry Bayly, the eldest son of
Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of
Plas Newydd in
Anglesey, by his wife Caroline Paget, a great-granddaughter of the
5th Lord Paget.
He succeeded as 10th
Baron Paget in
1769 on the death of his mother's second cousin the
Earl of Uxbridge and by
Royal Licence on
29 January 1770, took the name of Paget in lieu of Bayly. In
1782 he succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet, and became
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey in the same year. On
19 May 1784 he was created
Earl of Uxbridge. He also held positions as Constable of
Caernarfon Castle, Ranger of the Forest of
Snowdon, Steward of Bardney, and Vice-Admiral of
North Wales. In
1767 he married Jane Champagné, a descendant of a well-known
Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland. When he died he was aged sixty-seven while his widow died five years later in
1817 aged seventy-five.
One of his sons, who succeeded as second Earl of Uxbridge, commanded the cavalry at
Waterloo and was later created
Marquess of Anglesey, another
Charles rose to be a vice-admiral.
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