The Earl of Uxbridge | |
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| Member of Parliament forStaffordshire | |
| In office 1707–1712 | |
| Preceded by | Parliament of England |
| Succeeded by | William Ward Charles Bagot |
| In office 1695–1707 Serving with John Grey,Sir Edward Bagot | |
| Preceded by | Sir Walter Bagot John Grey |
| Succeeded by | Parliament of Great Britain |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Paget (1663-01-13)13 January 1663 |
| Died | 30 August 1743(1743-08-30) (aged 80) |
| Spouses | |
| Relations | Francis Pierrepoint (grandfather) Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (grandson) |
| Children | Thomas Paget, Lord Paget (son) |
| Parent(s) | William Paget, 6th Baron Paget Frances Pierrepont |
Henry Paget, 1st Earl of UxbridgePC (13 January 1663 – 30 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in theEnglish andBritish House of Commons from 1695 until 1712 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton as one ofHarley's Dozen. He was aHanoverian Tory, supportive of theHanoverian Succession.[1]
Paget was the son ofWilliam Paget, 6th Baron Paget, and his first wife Frances Pierrepont, daughter of Hon.Francis Pierrepoint.[2] She was a granddaughter ofRobert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Paget was appointed adeputy lieutenant forMiddlesex on 6 April 1689 andStaffordshire on 14 May 1689. He was elected Member of Parliament forStaffordshire on 7 November 1695 as aTory. In 1702 he was made a deputy lieutenant forBuckinghamshire.[2]
On 30 April 1704 Paget was appointedone of the Council advising theLord High Admiral,Prince George of Denmark, and served until the Prince's death on 28 October 1708. He was also aLord Commissioner of the Treasury between 10 August 1710 and 30 May 1711. On 13 June 1711 he was appointedCaptain of the Yeomen of the Guard, being made aPrivy Counsellor the next day and being raised to theHouse of Lords asBaron Burton, ofBurton in theCounty of Stafford, on1 January 1712. On 26 February 1713 he succeeded his father as7th Baron Paget of Beaudesert, and was also appointed to succeed him asLord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
On 1 May 1714 he was appointedEnvoy Extraordinary to theElector of Hanover, but refused to go unless he was made an Earl, whichQueen Anne refused. However, when the Elector succeeded as King George I of Great Britain on 1 August, he raised Paget in the peerage asEarl ofUxbridge in the County ofMiddlesex, on 19 October 1714, and appointed him to the newPrivy Council, 16 November 1714. In 1727, the Town ofUxbridge,Massachusetts Colony, was named in honour of Henry Paget, First Earl of Uxbridge.
In 1715 Lord Uxbridge ceased to be Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Lord Lieutenant, and took on the post ofRecorder ofLichfield, in which he served until his death. In 1740, he became ajustice of the peace forCambridgeshire.
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:[3]
Lady Uxbridge died suddenly on 3 November 1734, and was buried atWest Drayton on 9 November. On 7 June 1739, Lord Uxbridge remarried Elizabeth Bagot (b. 1674). She was a member of another Staffordshirecounty family, the daughter of the lateSir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet (to whose Parliamentary seat Uxbridge had succeeded in 1695). He was seventy-six and she was sixty-nine.[3]
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 grandsonHenry, who became the 2nd Earl. His widow Lady Uxbridge died on 2 September 1749.[3]
| Parliament of England | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forStaffordshire withJohn Grey 1685–1698 Sir Edward Bagot 1698–1707 1695–1707 | Succeeded by Parliament of Great Britain |
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by Parliament of England | Member of Parliament forStaffordshire withSir Edward Bagot 1707–1708 John Wrottesley 1708–1710 William Ward 1710–1712 1707–1712 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1711–1715 | Succeeded by |
| Honorary titles | ||
| Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire 1713–1715 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by | Baron Paget de Beaudesert 1713–1743 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of Great Britain | ||
| New creation | Earl of Uxbridge 1714–1743 | Succeeded by |
| Baron Burton 1712–1743 | ||
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