[Footnote 6:  Diary (ed.  Wheatley, 1904), iv. 298, vii. 14.]

AUTHORITIES.—­Dict. of Nat.  Biography, with authorities there collected; lives in Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses (Bliss), iv. 181, Biographia Britannica, and H. Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors (1806), iii. 288 (the latter a very inadequate review of Anglesey’s character and career); also Bibliotheca Anglesiana ... per Thomam Philippum (1686); The Happy Future State of England, by Sir Peter Pett (1688); Great News from Poland (1683), where his religious tolerance is ridiculed; Somers Tracts (Scott, 1812), viii. 344; Notes of the Privy Council (Roxburghe Club, 1896); Cal. of State Papers, Dom.; State Trials, viii. and ix. 619.

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ANGLESEY, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, 1st MARQUESS OF (1768-1854), British field-marshal, was born on the 17th of May 1768.  He was the eldest son of Henry Paget, 1st earl of Uxbridge (d. 1812), and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, afterwards entering parliament in 1790 as member for Carnarvon, for which he sat for six years.  At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary wars Lord Paget (as he was then styled), who had already served in the militia, raised on his father’s estate the regiment of Staffordshire volunteers, in which he was given the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel (1793).  The corps soon became part of the regular army as the 80th Foot, and it took part, under Lord Paget’s command, in the Flanders campaign of 1794.  In spite of his youth he held a brigade command for a time, and gained also, during the campaign, his first experience of the cavalry arm, with which he was thenceforward associated.  His substantive commission as lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Light Dragoons bore the date of the 15th of June 1795, and in 1796 he was made a colonel in the army.  In 1795 he married Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers, daughter of the earl of Jersey.  In April 1797 Lord Paget was transferred to a lieut.-colonelcy in the 7th Light Dragoons, of which regiment he became colonel in 1801.  From the first he applied himself strenuously to the improvement of discipline, and to the perfection of a new system of cavalry evolutions.  In the short campaign of 1799 in Holland, Paget commanded the cavalry brigade, and in spite of the unsuitable character of the ground, he made, on several occasions, brilliant and successful charges.  After the return of the expedition, he devoted himself zealously to his regiment, which under his command became one of the best corps in the service.  In 1802 he was promoted major-general, and six years later lieutenant-general.  In command of the cavalry of Sir John Moore’s army during the Corunna campaign, Lord Paget won the greatest distinction.  At Sahagun, Mayorga and Benavente, the British cavalry behaved so well under his leadership that Moore wrote:—­“It is impossible for me to say too much in its praise....