Lord Alfred Paget

Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1875.

Lord Alfred Henry Paget (26 June 1816 24 August 1888)[1] was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1865.

Biography

Paget was the fourth son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey. 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.[2]

Paget was Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to the Queen from July 1846 to March 1852, from December 1852 to March 1858 and from June 1859.Lieutenant-Colonel (unattached), 1854. He lived at 42 Grosvenor Place, London and at Melford Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk.

Business Interests

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

Family

Paget married Cecilia, second daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk in 1847. Their children were:

In literature

Lord Alfred Paget is not to be confused with the surgeon Sir James Paget, who was mentioned in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Patience of 1881, in which Colonel Calverley notes the surgeon for his "coolness, about to trepan". [To trepan means to bore a hole in the skull (e.g. for surgery).]

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
  2. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 185–186. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Edward Scott, Bt
Sir George Anson
Member of Parliament for Lichfield
18371865
With: Sir George Anson to 1841
Lord Levson 1841–1846
Edward Lloyd-Mostyn 1846–1847
Viscount Anson 1847–1854
lord Waterpark 1854–1856
Viscount Sandon 1856–1859
Augustus Anson from 1859
Succeeded by
Richard Dyott
Augustus Anson
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Lord Charles Wellesley
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
18461852
Succeeded by
The Lord Colville of Culross
Preceded by
The Lord Colville of Culross
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
18521858
Succeeded by
The Lord Colville of Culross
Preceded by
The Lord Colville of Culross
Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal
18591874
Succeeded by
John Carstairs McNeill


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