Regency Personalities Series-Henry Paget 1st Earl of Uxbridge
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the��many period notables.
Henry Paget 1st Earl of Uxbridge
18 June 1744 ��� 13 March 1812
Henry Paget
Henry Paget 1st Earl of Uxbridge was born Henry Bayly, Uxbridge was the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd in Anglesey, by his wife Caroline Paget, daughter of Brigadier-General Thomas Paget and a great-granddaughter of William Paget, 5th Baron Paget. He succeeded as 10th Baron Paget in 1769 on the death of his mother’s second cousin the Earl of Uxbridge and by Royal Licence on 29 January 1770, took the name of Paget in lieu of Bayly. In 1782 he succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet.
Uxbridge became Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey in 1782. On 19 May 1784 he was created Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire between 1801 and 1812, Constable of Caernarfon Castle, Ranger of the Forest of Snowdon, Steward of Bardney, and Vice-Admiral of North Wales.
Lord Uxbridge married Jane, daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagn��, Dean of Clonmacnoise, a descendant of a well-known Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland, in 1767. They had twelve children:
Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (17 May 1768 ��� 29 April 1854)
Captain Hon. William Paget (c. 1770���1795)
Hon. Sir Arthur Paget(15 January 1771 ��� 26 July 1840)
Lady Caroline Paget (1773-9 July 1847)
General Hon. Sir Edward Paget (3 November 1775 ��� 13 May 1849)
Lady Jane Paget (c. 1777-30 June 1842), married George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway.
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Charles Paget (7 October 1778 ��� 27 January 1839)
Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget (1780���1826)
Lady Louisa Paget (c. 1781-23 January 1842)
Lady Mary Paget (c. 1783-29 April 1835)
Lady Charlotte Paget (c. 1785-26 January 1817)
Hon. Brownlow Paget (c. 1797-1797)
Lord Uxbridge died in March 1812, aged sixty-seven, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Henry. The Countess of Uxbridge died in March 1817, aged seventy-five.
