Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey

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Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey. Painting by Rex Whistler (1937).

Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey GCVO CStJ (born April 14, 1885 in London , † February 21, 1947 in London) was a British nobleman .

Life

Charles Paget was the older son of Alexander Paget (1839-1896), the third son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (1797-1869). His mother was Hester Alice Stapleton-Cotton (1851-1930), a daughter of Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere . Paget attended Eton College in Berkshire, England, and was later educated at the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . When his cousin, Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey , died in 1905 with no offspring at the age of 29, he inherited his title of nobility as 6th Marquess of Anglesey , 7th Earl of Uxbridge, 15th Baron Paget and 9th Baronet, of Plas-Newydd. He thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

He began his military career with a brief service with the Royal Horse Guards , where he rose to the rank of captain . Between 1911 and 1912 he was Mayor of Burton-upon-Trent . After the beginning of the First World War he returned to the Royal Horse Guards and was assigned to France on the Western Front . From 1914 he served as aide-de-camp for Sir John Maxwell , who as commanding general commanded the Allied troops in Egypt . In 1915 he took part in the Battle of Gallipoli under Sir William Birdwood , Commanding General of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps . In 1916 he again served as Deputy Military Secretary under Sir John Maxwell, who was meanwhile Commanding General in Ireland and put down the Easter Rising there . Because of his services, he was honored in 1918 as an officer of the Egyptian Nile Order and commander of the French Legion of Honor.

Charles Paget (center) together with Alexander of Battenberg, later Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (left) and Captain Walford (right) at the headquarters of the Allied Forces in Egypt in 1915.

From 1922 until his death in 1947, Charles Paget was the Lord Chamberlain of the Household of the Queen Consort Mary , consort of the British King George V. In 1928 he was made the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO). In 1931 he was accepted as an officer in the Order of Saint John and in 1944 he was promoted to Commander of this Order (CStJ). During World War II he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Home Guard and was Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey from 1942 until his death .

In 1912 he married Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners (1883-1946), a daughter of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland . They had six children:

  • Alexandra Mary Cecilia Caroline Paget (1913–1973) ⚭ Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet (1907–1980);
  • Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget (1916–1980) ⚭ Raimund von Hofmannsthal († 1974);
  • Mary Patricia Beatrice Rose Paget (1918-1996);
  • Rose Mary Primrose Paget (1919–2005) ⚭ Hon. John McLaren, son of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway ;
  • George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922-2013);
  • Katharine Mary Veronica Paget (1922-2017) ⚭ (1) Jocelyn Eustace Gurney (1910-1973), ⚭ (2) Charles Farrell (1919-2015).

Until the First World War, Charles Paget lived mainly in Beaudesert Hall , the Paget family estate at the south end of Cannock Chase in the English county of Staffordshire . The high tax burden after the First World War meant that the Marquess could no longer afford to keep the property in Beaudesert. In 1920 Charles Paget moved to Plas Newydd , the family's second home on the island of Anglesey in North Wales , and tried to sell the property in Beaudesert. In 1935 Beaudesert Hall was demolished and the building materials sold.

In the 1930s, Charles Paget commissioned the artist Rex Whistler to make a large mural as a capriccio in the dining room at Plas Newydd . During this time he made friends with Caroline Paget, the daughter of the landlord. How close this relationship was has not yet been clarified. The trompe l'œil mural is now one of the main attractions of the property. In 1947 Charles Paget died at the age of 61 after an operation. His wife Victoria had died a year earlier. He was followed as the 7th Marquess of Anglesey by his eldest son, George Paget.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Christopher Sainty: List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales, 1660-1974. Swift Printers, London 1979.

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predecessor Office successor
Henry Paget Marquess of Anglesey
1905-1947 		George Paget
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SURNAME Paget, Charles, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paget, Charles Henry Alexander, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1947
Place of death London