Lord Clarence Paget

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox military person Admiral Lord Clarence Edward Paget Template:Post-nominals (17 June 1811 – 22 March 1895) was a British naval officer, politician, and sculptor.

Naval career

Born the younger son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Paget in 1827 like many younger sons of nobility entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman on the second-rate ship-of-the-line Template:HMS and took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827.<ref name=loney>William Loney RN</ref> Promoted to commander in 1834, he took charge of Template:HMS and, promoted to captain in 1839, he commanded the first-rate ship-of-the-line Template:HMS and then the fifth-rate frigate Template:HMS.<ref name=loney/>

Paget attempted to enter Parliament as a Liberal for Southampton in 1837, but was returned as a member for Sandwich in 1847, retaining the seat until July 1852.<ref name=loney/>

Paget served as secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance from 1846 to 1853.<ref name=loney/> He commanded the second-rate ship-of-the-line Template:HMS in the expedition to the Baltic in 1854 during the Crimean War (1854–1856).<ref name=loney/> Again Member of Parliament for Southampton from March 1857, he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty in June 1859 but accepted the Chiltern Hundreds (i.e., resigned) in March 1866.<ref name=loney/> He was promoted to vice admiral in 1865 and was Commander-in Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1866 to 1869.<ref name=loney/>

Paget retired in 1876. He died in 1895 at the age of 83.<ref name=loney/>

Family

In 1852 Paget married Martha Stuart, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bt.<ref name=loney/>

References

• {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=

| peers/peers{{#if: | | }}.htm | }} Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages {{#if: | – Peerages beginning with "" | }} {{#if: | (part ) | }}{{#if: |

         |

         }}{{#ifeq: |
  |
  {{#if: 
  |
  | {{#if:|
      {{#if:
      |[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP template with two unnamed parameters|]]
      |[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP template with one unnamed parameter|]]
      }}
    |
    }}
   }}
  }}

}}

Further reading

• Template:Cite wikisource

External links

• Template:Hansard-contribs

Template:S-start Template:S-par Template:Succession box |- Template:Succession box Template:S-off Template:Succession box |- Template:S-mil Template:Succession box Template:S-end