| Intro | British politician | ||||
| Was | Politician | ||||
| From | United Kingdom | ||||
| Type | Politics | ||||
| Gender | male | ||||
| Birth | 26 June 1816, Lichfield | ||||
| Death |
24 August 1888, London (aged 72 years) |
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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.
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:
- Victoria Alexandrina Paget (21 Apr 1848 – 2 Feb 1859)
- Evelyn Cecilia Paget (16 Jul 1849 – 17 May 1904)
- Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget (1 Mar 1851 – 8 Dec 1928)
- Alfred Wyndham Paget (26 Mar 1852 – 17 Jun 1918)
- George Thomas Cavendish Paget (24 May 1853 – 28 Jan 1939)
- Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget (15 Oct 1854 – 25 Oct 1913), grandfather of Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon.
- Violet Mary Paget (1 Mar 1856 – 13 Jun 1908)
- Sydney Augustus Paget (19 Apr 1857 – 16 Sep 1916)
- Amy Olivia Paget (3 Jun 1858 – 14 Feb 1948)
- Alberta Victoria Paget (1859 – 28 Jul 1945)
- Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (14 Mar 1861 – 22 Sep 1949)
- Alice Maud Paget (9 Jul 1862 – 24 Dec 1925)
- Alexandra Harriet Paget (31 Mar 1863 – 1944), married Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke.
- Guinevere Eva Paget (16 Mar 1869 – 26 Feb 1894)
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).]