Anglesey, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, MARQUIS OF

Anglesey, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, MARQUIS OF, born May 17, 1768, from Westminster passed to Christchurch, Oxford, and sat in parliament for the Carnarvon boroughs (1790-96). Entering the army, he served with distinction in Flanders (1794), Holland (1799), and the Peninsular war (1809); represented Milborne Port (1806-12), and in 1812 succeeded his father as Earl of Uxbridge. For his splendid services as commander of the British cavalry at Waterloo, where he lost a leg, he was made Marquis of Anglesey. In 1828 he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland, at a period when that country was greatly agitated on the question of Catholic emancipation; and his advocacy of that measure procured his recall by Wellington in 1829. From 1830 to 1833 he held the same office under Lord Grey's administration; but O'Connell had now commenced his career of agitation, and the Marquis was forced to resort to severe coercive measures, which destroyed his earlier popularity. To him, however, Ireland is indebted for the Board of Education. From 1846 to 1852 he was Master-general of the Ordnance in the Russell ministry; and in the former year he was raised to the dignity of field-marshal. He died April 29, 1854.