ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, IST MAR QUIS OF (1768-1854), British field-marshal, was born May 17, 1768, the eldest son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He served with distinction in the French revolutionary wars, and by 1808 had risen to be lieutenant-general. In command of the cavalry in Sir John Moore's Corunna campaign, he won the highest praise. His liaison with the wife of Henry Wellesley made it impossible at that time for him to serve with Wellington, and he did not serve actively, except during the disastrous Walcheren campaign, until in 1815 he commanded the British cavalry in Flanders. Wellington put him in command of the whole of the allied cavalry and horse artillery. He covered the retirement from Quatre Bras, and led the cavalry charge of the British centre which checked and in part routed d'Erlon's corps d'armee at Waterloo. He received a severe wound, which necessitated the amputation of his leg. He received a marquisate and other honours for his services, which were regarded as second only to those of the duke himself.
Anglesey became lord lieutenant of Ireland (1828) under Wel lington's Government, and his recall, after a brief tenure of the office, on account of his advocacy of the relief of the Catholics from the penal laws imposed on them, was much regretted in Ireland. But in 1830, after the cause was won, he again became lieutenant under Earl Grey's Government. He had to face O'Con nell's agitation for the repeal of the Union, and asked for coercive powers. In July 1833 the ministry resigned. His best legacy to Ireland was the Board of Education, established during his vice royalty. Anglesey remained in retirement until 1846, when he be came master-general of the ordnance. In that year he was pro moted to the rank of field-marshal. He died April 29, The marquis had two sons and six daughters by his first wife, and six sons and four daughters by the second. His eldest son, Henry, succeeded him in the marquisate; but the title passed rapidly in succession to the 3rd, 4th and 5th marquises. The last, whose extravagances were notorious, died in 1905, when the title passed to his cousin.
Other members of the Paget family distinguished themselves in the Army and the Navy. Of the first marquis's brothers, one, SIR CHARLES PAGET rose to the rank of vice-admiral in the Royal Navy; another, General SIR EDWARD (I won great distinction by his skilful handling of a division at Corunna, and from 1822 to 1825 was commander-in-chief in India. One of the marquis's sons by his second marriage, LORD CLARENCE EDWARD PAGET (181 1-95 ), became an admiral; an other, LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK PAGET (1818-80), led the 4th Light Dragoons in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava ; and subsequently commanded the brigade, and, for a short time, the cavalry division in the Crimea. In 1865 he was made inspector-general of cavalry, in 1871 lieutenant-general and K.C.B., and in 1877 full general. His Crimean journals were published in 1881.