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8 unusual facts about Henry Paget


Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes

On 29 December 1808, he was taken prisoner in the action of Benavente by the British cavalry under Henry Paget (later Lord Uxbridge, and subsequently Marquess of Anglesey).

Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey

However, rumours persisted that his biological father was the French actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin, a rumour that gained some currency when, according to some sources, after the death of his mother in 1877, when he was two years old, Paget reportedly was raised by Coquelin's sister-in-law in Paris until he was eight.

John Pendleton King

He married Mary Louise Woodward, daughter of John Woodward and wife Harriet Bixby, and had at least two daughters: Grace Sterling King, married to John McPherson Berrien Connelly and had issue, and Mary Livingstone King, married to Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey (1835–1898).

Rathcannon, County Tipperary

William Grace, Thomas Keogh, Michael Treacy, Thomas Maher, Michael Luby and James Daniel who had changed their pleas to guilty were also sentenced to death but an express messenger arrived from the Marquis of Anglesea, the Lord Lieutenant, with an order to commuting their execution to transportation.

Surbiton Park

Not long after the battle, he became the first Marquess of Anglesey.

The eccentric spelling of this road's name remains as a historical curiosity, but it is clear that it was named in honour of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, the most illustrious owner of Surbiton Place.

Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry

After 1828 he became a member of the private cabinet of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and kept horses ready at Lyons for impromptu meetings when Anglesey was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1828 to 1829 (when he was popular), and from 1830 to1834 (when he was less popular).

Worthing Cricket Club

Founded in March 1855 at the Steyne Hotel (now the Chatsworth Hotel) in Worthing, under the patronage of Lord Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, and Lord Alexander Paget.


Anglesea Barracks

Despite the small variation in spelling it was named after Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey who was involved with the Board of Ordnance.

Edward Bayly

The latter's son Henry succeeded as 10th Baron Paget in 1769, was created Earl of Uxbridge in 1784 and was the father of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, hero of the Battle of Waterloo.

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

Henry, the 7th baron (c.1665-1743), was raised to the peerage during his father's lifetime as Baron Burton in 1712, being one of the twelve peers created by the Tory ministry to secure a majority in the House of Lords, and was created Earl of Uxbridge in 1714.


see also

Lord William Paget

They had several children, including William Henry Paget, a Major-General in the Indian Army.