Allegiance United Kingdom Name Lord Paget Awards Order of the Bath Rank Admiral Party Liberal Party | Years of service 1827 - 1876 Died March 22, 1895 Service/branch Royal Navy Role British Politician Uncles Edward Paget | |
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Commands held HMS Pearl
HMS Howe
HMS Aigle
HMS Princess Royal
Mediterranean Fleet Battles/wars Greek War of Independence
Crimean War Parents Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Battles and wars Greek War of Independence, Crimean War | ||
Admiral Lord Clarence Edward Paget GCB (17 June 1811 – 22 March 1895) was a British sailor, politician and sculptor.
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Naval career
Born the younger son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Paget like many younger sons of nobility entered the Royal Navy in 1827 as a midshipman on the battleship HMS Asia and took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827. Promoted to Commander in 1834, he took charge of HMS Pearl and, promoted to Captain in 1839, he commanded HMS Howe and then HMS Aigle.
He attempted to enter Parliament as a Liberal for Southampton in 1837, but was returned as a member for Sandwich in 1847, retaining the seat until July 1852.
He served as secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance from 1846 to 1853. He commanded HMS Princess Royal in the expedition to the Baltic for the Crimean War in 1854. Again MP for Southampton from March 1857, he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty in June 1859 but accepted the Chiltern Hundreds (i.e. resigned) in March 1866. He was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1865 and was Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1866 to 1869. Lord Clarence Paget retired in 1876 and died in 1895 at the age of 83.
Family
In 1852 he married Martha Stuart, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bt.