Background
Paget was the fourth son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey.
Paget was the fourth son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey.
He became a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. Paget was Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to the Queen from July 1846 to March 1852, from December 1852 to March 1858 and from June 1859.Lieutenant-Colonel (unattached), 1854. He lived at 42 Grosvenor Place, London and at Melford Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Paget was a director of the North Staffordshire Railway Company between January 1854 and February 1875.
Paget married Cecilia, second daughter and co-heiress of George Thomas Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk in 1847. Their children were:
Victoria Alexandrina Paget (21 April 1848-1842 February 1859)
Evelyn Cecilia Paget (16 July 1849-1817 May 1904)
Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget ( 1 March 1851-1858 December 1928)
Alfred Wyndham Paget (26 March 1852-1817 June 1918)
George Thomas Cavendish Paget (24 May 1853-1828 January 1939)
Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget (15 October 1854-1825 October 1913), grandfather of Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon.
Violet Mary Paget ( 1 March 1856-1813 June 1908)
Sydney Augustus Paget (19 April 1857-1816 September 1916)
Amy Olivia Paget ( 3 June 1858-1814 February 1948)
Alberta Victoria Paget (1859-1828 July 1945)
Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (14 March 1861-1822 September 1949)
Alice Maud Paget ( 9 July 1862-1824 December 1925)
Alexandra Harriet Paget (31 March 1863-1944), married Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke. Guinevere Eva Paget (16 March 1869-1826 February 1894)
Lord Alfred Paget is not to be confused with the surgeon Sir James Paget, who was mentioned in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Patience of 1881, in which Colonel Calverley notes the surgeon for his "coolness, about to trepan".
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In 1837 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield and held the seat until 1865, when he was defeated by the Conservative Richard Dyott.