Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
ANGERSTEIN, JOHN. M.P. for Greenwich 10 Jany. 1835 to 17 July 1837.
_d._ the Woodlands, Blackheath 10 April 1858 aged 85.
ANGERSTEIN, JOHN JULIUS WILLIAM. _b._ 1800; major Grenadier guards
27 Dec. 1850 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 2 Feb. 1862; col. 4 West India
regiment 14 Jany. 1866 to death. _d._ Weeting hall near Brandon,
Norfolk 23 April 1866.
ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, 1 Marquess of (_eld. child of Henry
Bayly, 1 Earl of Uxbridge 1744–1812_). _b._ 17 May 1768; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1786; M.P. for Carnarvon 1790–96
and 1806–10; M.P. for Milbourn Port 1796–1804; raised among his
father’s tenantry 80th regiment of foot or Staffordshire
volunteers; lieut. col. commandant of it 12 Sep. 1793 to 16 June
1795; lieut. col. 16 light dragoons 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 7
light dragoons 6 April 1797 and col. 16 May 1801 to 20 Dec. 1842;
succeeded 13 March 1812; lord lieut. of Anglesey 21 April 1812 to
death; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; created Marquess of Anglesey 4 July
1815; G.C.H. 1816; K.G. 19 Feb. 1818; general 12 Aug. 1819; lord
high steward at coronation of George iv, 19 July 1821; master
general of the ordnance 1827–28 and 1846–52; P.C. 30 April 1827;
lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–29 and 1830–33; col. of royal horse
guards 20 Dec. 1842 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; lord
lieut. of Staffs. 31 Jany. 1849 to death. _d._ 1 Old Burlington
st. London 29 April 1854. _bur._ in Lichfield cathedral 6 May. _J.
W. Cole’s British generals i_, 109–44 (1856), _portrait_; _N. and
Q. 3rd series ii_, 249, 320, 339; _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches, 4 ed._ 1876 57–63.
NOTE.—In a garden close to the church at Waterloo is a
monument to his right leg lost in the battle; he refused a
pension of £1,200 per annum granted him for this loss, thus
saving his country nearly £47,000.
ANGLESEY, HENRY PAGET, 2 Marquess of (_eld. son of preceding_). _b._
6 July 1797; M.P. for Anglesey 1820–32; summoned to House of Lords
as Baron Paget of Beaudesert 15 Jany. 1833; col. in the army 28
June 1838, retired 1843; lord chamberlain of the Queen’s household
6 May 1839 to 14 Sep. 1841; P.C. 22 May 1839; succeeded 29 April
1854; lord lieut. of Anglesey 18 May 1854 to death; kept a racing
stud 1831–35 and 1854 to death; made on the high ground above
Beaudesert near Lichfield one of best cricket grounds in England.
_d._ Beaudesert 6 Feb. 1869. _Baily’s Mag. v_, 51–54 (1863),
_portrait_.
ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM GEORGE PAGET, 3 Marquess of. _b._ 9 Dec.
1821; lieut. col. 2 Staffordshire militia 5 Jany. 1853 to 29 Sep.
1855; M.P. for south Staffs 1854–57; succeeded 6 Feb. 1869. _d._
10 Albert mansions, Victoria st. London 30 Jany. 1880.
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