Charlotte Sloane Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey ( Cadogan; 10 July 1781 – 8 July 1853), formerly known as Lady Charlotte Wellesley, was the second wife 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 ...

Early life

She was the daughter of the former Mary Churchill and

Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (29 September 1728 – 3 April 1807) was a British peer and Whig politician. Early life Cadogan was the only son of Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan and his wife, the former Elizabeth Sloane. His m ...

, MP for

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and

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. Among her siblings were Henry Cadogan (who was killed at the

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George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan Admiral George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan, CB (5 May 1783 – 15 September 1864) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician of the mid-nineteenth century who first gained fame for his service in the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic Wars ...

, and Lady Emily Cadogan (who married

Gerald Valerian Wellesley Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley (1809 – 17 September 1882) was a Church of England cleric who became the Dean of Windsor. A nephew of the Duke of Wellington, he was domestic chaplain to Queen Victoria and played a major advi ...

, a brother of her first husband, both sons of

Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings. In the days before elevators this was the least prestigious position in a building, at the very t ...

). Her father's first wife, the former Frances Bromley (a daughter of

Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort (20 August 1705 – 1 January 1755), of Horseheath Hall, Cambridgeshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1741 when he was raised to the peerage as Bar ...

) and from that marriage, she had several older half-siblings, including Charles Cadogan, 2nd Earl Cadogan, Rev. William Cadogan, Thomas Cadogan (a naval officer lost at sea aboard HMS ''Glorieux''), and George Cadogan (who was killed in

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while an officer in the

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Army). Her father was the only son of

Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan General Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan (1684/5 – 24 September 1776)Falkner, James"Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', 24 May 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2018. was a British Army officer and Whig poli ...

and the former Elizabeth Sloane (the second daughter of Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet). Her maternal grandparents were Charles Churchill, MP for Stockbridge and

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, and the former Lady Mary Walpole (a daughter of

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, later the 1st

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). Her mother was a niece of

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough General (United Kingdom), General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was a Briti ...

. In 1800, her father was raised to the peerage as the first

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, and Charlotte was afforded the

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of Lady Charlotte as the daughter of an Earl.

Personal life

On 20 September 1803, Lady Charlotte was married to Henry Wellesley, the fifth and youngest son of

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and Anne Hill-Trevor (eldest daughter of

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), later 1st

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. He was the younger brother of

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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of ...

and

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was an Anglo-Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. His surname changed twice: he was ...

. Together, they were the parents of four children: *

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(1804–1884), who married Olivia Cecilia FitzGerald, a daughter of the 20th Baroness de Ros and

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(fourth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster). * Captain

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(1806–1875), who married Amelia St John Niblock, daughter of Rev. Joseph White Niblock. * Charlotte Arbuthnot Wellesley (1807–1891), who married

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. *

(1809–1882), who married Magdalen Montagu, third daughter of

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Divorce and second marriage

In 1810, Wellesley divorced Charlotte by an Act of Parliament on the grounds of her adultery with Lord Paget (the eldest son of

Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (13 January 166330 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 until 171 ...

). It was claimed that Paget had pursued her ruthlessly and that she had asked her husband to stay close to her in public "for the express purpose of avoiding Lord P's importunities". At the divorce trial, several witnesses stated that the couple had an affectionate relationship. Charlotte's brother Henry Cadogan challenged Paget to a

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; honour was satisfied, though neither was injured. Following the divorce, Wellesley was awarded £24,000 in damages against Paget. Referring to the incident in later years, when Paget, now Lord Uxbridge, was assigned to Wellington as his second-in-command at the

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, Wellington is said to have commented: "Lord Uxbridge has the reputation of running away with everybody he can. I’ll take good care he don’t run away with me.” In 1810, following Paget's divorce by his wife Caroline, Lady Charlotte and Paget were married. Together, Charlotte and her second husband had ten children, of whom seven survived infancy, including: * Lady Emily Caroline Paget (1810–1893), who married

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. * Admiral Lord Sir Clarence Edward Paget (1811–1895), who married Martha Stuart, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Otway. * Lady Mary Paget (1812–1859), who married

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. * General Lord Alfred Henry Paget (1816–1888), MP for

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who married Cecilia Wyndham, second daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham of

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. * General Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget (1818–1880), who married his first cousin Agnes Charlotte, daughter of Sir Arthur Paget. After her death, he married Louisa Elizabeth Heneage, daughter of Charles Fieschi Heneage. After he died in 1880, his widow remarried to Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex. * Lady Adelaide Paget (1820–1890), who married

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 B ...

, a son of

. As Lady Adelaide Cadogan, she wrote the first book of

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in English. Her second husband succeeded his father as Earl of Uxbridge on 13 March 1812, and Lady Charlotte became the Countess of Uxbridge and upon his elevation to a marquessate on 4 July 1815, she became the Marchioness of Anglesey. In January 1828, many years after their divorce and Wellesley's remarriage, he was created

of Wellesley in the County of Somerset, due to his brother's influence with the prime minister,

Lord Goderich Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as The Viscount Goderich (pronounced ), the name by which he is best known to h ...

. The Marchioness of Anglesey died on 8 July 1853. Her widower, the Marquess of Anglesey, died at Uxbridge House in London on 29 April 1854.

References

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Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island () and some islets and Skerry, sker ...