Name Lord Paget Children Sydney Paget | Died August 24, 1888 Role British Politician Uncles Edward Paget | |
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Parents Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | ||
Lord Alfred Paget + Edward Drummond (Angel of the Morning)
Lord Alfred Henry Paget CB (26 June 1816 – 24 August 1888) was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1865.
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- Lord Alfred Paget Edward Drummond Angel of the Morning
- Biography
- Business Interests
- Family
- In literature
- References
Biography
Paget was the sixth 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, when he was defeated by the Conservative Richard Dyott.
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. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel (unattached) in 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).]