Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Anglesey
PC
Paget, in about 1885, by Welsh photographer John Thomas
In office
3 January 1880 – 13 October 1898
MonarchVictoria
Succeeded by5th Marquess of Anglesey
Personal details
Born25 December 1835 (1835-12-25)
United Kingdom
Died13 October 1898 (1898-10-14) (aged 62)
Plas Newydd, Anglesey, Wales
Political partyWhig
Spouses
  • Elisabeth Norman
  • Blanche Mary Boyd
  • Mary Livingstone Key
ChildrenHenry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey
Parents

Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey and 5th Earl of Uxbridge PC (25 December 1835 – 13 October 1898) was a British peer. He served as Vice-Admiral of the Coast, North Wales and Carmarthenshire.[1]

Background

Henry
Henry with his sister Lady Florence, Marchioness of Hastings.

Anglesey was the second son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, by his second wife Henrietta Bagot, fourth daughter of Charles Bagot. On 30 January 1880 he succeeded to the titles of 5th Earl of Uxbridge, co. Middlesex, 7th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd, Anglesey and Mount Bagenall, and 13th Lord Paget, of Beaudesert (Staffordshire). He owned a large part of the County of Anglesey.

He was commissioned as a cornet in the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry on 20 March 1857 and was appointed captain of the Anglesey, Staffordshire, Troop of the regiment on 11 October 1859. He was promoted to major on 9 October 1874, and later gained the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1884 the commanding officer died during the regiment's annual training, and Anglesey succeeded as Lt-Col Commandant. After his retirement he was appointed honorary colonel of the regiment on 5 March 1887.[2][3][4] He was also Honorary Colonel of the 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 £15 million per year in 2023).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs, Volume 4, By Frederic Boase
  2. ^ Army List.
  3. ^ Capt P.C.G. Webster, The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield: Lomax, 1870; Appendix.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  6. ^ Chap, The (18 December 2013). "The Dancing Marquess". The Chap. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ^ 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 7 May 2024.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Marquess of Anglesey
1880–1898 		Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, Staffordshire Yeomanry
1884–1887 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Honorary Colonel, Staffordshire Yeomanry
1887– 		Vacant


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