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

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from 1695 until 1712 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton as one of Harley's Dozen. He was a Hanoverian Tory, supportive of the

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.Colley p.62

Personal life

Paget was the son of

William Paget, 6th Baron Paget William Paget, 6th Baron Paget (10 February 1637 – 26 February 1713) was an English peer and ambassador. He was the eldest son of William Paget, 5th Baron Paget and Lady Isabella Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland. Paget was bo ...

, and his first wife Frances Pierrepont, daughter of Hon. Francis Pierrepoint. She was a granddaughter of

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (6 August 158425 July 1643) was an English nobleman who joined the Royalist side in the English Civil War after some delay and became lieutenant-general of the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Hunt ...

Career

Paget was appointed a deputy lieutenant for

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on 6 April 1689 and

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on 14 May 1689. He was elected Member of Parliament for

on 7 November 1695 as a

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. In 1702 he was made a deputy lieutenant for

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. On 30 April 1704 Paget was appointed one of the Council advising the Lord High Admiral,

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, and served until the Prince's death on 28 October 1708. He was also a

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between 10 August 1710 and 30 May 1711. On 13 June 1711 he was appointed

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, being made a

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the next day and being raised to the

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as Baron Burton, of Burton in the

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, on 1 January 1712. On 26 February 1713 he succeeded his father as 7th Baron Paget of Beaudesert, and was also appointed to succeed him as

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. On 1 May 1714 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the

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, but refused to go unless he was made an Earl, which Queen Anne refused. However, when the Elector succeeded as King George I of Great Britain on 1 August, he raised Paget in the peerage as Earl of

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in the County of

, on 19 October 1714, and appointed him to the new Privy Council, 16 November 1714. In 1727, the Town of

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, was named in honour of Henry Paget, First Earl of Uxbridge.

Later life

In 1715 Lord Uxbridge ceased to be Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Lord Lieutenant, and took on the post of Recorder of

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, in which he served until his death. In 1740, he became a justice of the peace for

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Personal life

In 1686, he married Mary Catesby, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Catesby of Whiston and Ecton and Margaret Samwell (a daughter of Richard Samwell of Upton). Together, they were the parents of: * Thomas Catesby Paget (died 4 February 1742), ''styled'' Lord Paget, who married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, youngest daughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater and Lady Jane Paulet (a daughter of

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). * Lady Mary Paget, who married Stephen Metcalfe. Lady Uxbridge died suddenly on 3 November 1734, and was buried at

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on 9 November. On 7 June 1739, Lord Uxbridge remarried Elizabeth Bagot (b. 1674). She was a member of another Staffordshire county family, the daughter of the late Sir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet (to whose Parliamentary seat Uxbridge had succeeded in 1695). He was seventy-six and she was sixty-nine. The Earl of Uxbridge died at West Drayton on 30 August 1743, aged eighty. As his son Thomas, Lord Paget had predeceased him the previous year, he was succeeded in his titles by his grandson

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, who became the 2nd Earl. His widow Lady Uxbridge died on 2 September 1749.

References

Sources

* * * Haydn's ''Book of Dignities'' * Colley, Linda. ''In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-60''. Cambridge University Press, 1985. * , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Uxbridge, Henry Paget, 1st Earl Of 1663 births 1743 deaths Paget, Henry Paget, Henry Paget, Henry Deputy lieutenants of Buckinghamshire Deputy lieutenants of Middlesex Deputy lieutenants of Staffordshire Earls of Uxbridge Peers of Great Britain created by Queen Anne Lord-lieutenants of Staffordshire Lords of the Admiralty Paget, Henry Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Paget, Henry

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