Henry William George Paget, 3rd Marquess of Anglesey (9 December 1821 – 30 January 1880), styled Lord Paget until 1854 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1854 and 1869, was a British peer and Liberal politician.
He was appointed as Captain of the Burton-on-Trent Troop of the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry on 26 March 1839.[1] The following year he obtained permission for the troop to be renamed the Anglesey Troop.[2] On 21 May 1841 he purchased a commission in the Grenadier Guards as Ensign & Lieutenant.[3] He sold his commission and retired on 23 May 1845.[4]
Political career
Anglesey was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Staffordshire South in 1854, a seat he held until 1857.[5] In 1869 he succeeded his father in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords.
Personal life
On 7 June 1845 in her home parish of Horsham, he married Sophia Eversfield,[6] born 24 June 1819, the daughter of James Eversfield, of Denne Park, and his wife Mary Crew, daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew.[7] There were no children from the marriage. He died in Westminster on 30 January 1880, aged 58, and was succeeded by his half-brother, Lord Henry Paget. His widow moved to Fordingbridge and later to Tunbridge Wells, where she died on 7 December 1901.[8]
^R.J. Smith & C.R. Coogan, The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794–1914, 15: Staffordshire Yeomanry, Feltham: Robert Ogilby Trust/Chippenham: Picton Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-9515714-6-X, p. 8.