Lady Adelaide Cadogan (née Paget; 1820–1890) was a British

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and prodigious author, most noted for her seminal work on plays and card games. She used her title in her publications and that is how she is generally styled.

Biography

Lady Adelaide Paget was born in 1820. She was the daughter of

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member ...

and Lady Charlotte Paget, née Cadogan. She was one of the train-bearers to

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...

at her 1838 coronation. She married her first cousin, the Honourable

Frederick William Cadogan Frederick William Cadogan DL, JP (16 December 1821 – 30 November 1904), styled The Honourable from 1831, was a British barrister and Liberal politician. He was the fourth son of George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan and his wife Honoria Louisa Bl ...

. Their grandparents were Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan and his second wife, Mary Churchill. Lady Adelaide's ''Illustrated Games of Patience'' is believed to be the first-ever compendium on patience games. Originally published around 1870, it ran through many editions and is still reprinted today. In England, a 'Cadogan' has come to be used as a term for any book on patience games.

Selected works

* ''Illustrated Games of Patience.'' (1874) * ''Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted from the French''''Reprint''
Retrieved 14 Aug 2018
''Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Patience or Solitaire''
(1914).

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* English women writers 19th-century English women writers Card game book writers Daughters of British marquesses 1820 births 1890 deaths {{England-writer-stub