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The Marquess of Anglesey's Column (also known as Anglesey Column or by the Welsh name Tŵr Marcwis) is a Doric column near the Menai Strait in Wales. It is dedicated to Henry William Paget (the first Marquess of Anglesey) to commemorate his valour in the Napoleonic Wars. The column is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
Marquess of Anglesey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge , a hero of the Battle of Waterloo , second in command to the Duke of Wellington .
6th Marquess of Anglesey 7th Earl of Uxbridge 15th Baron Paget 9th Baronet: Victoria Marjorie Harriet 1883–1946: Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan 1924–2017: George Charles Henry Victor Paget 1922–2013 7th Marquess of Anglesey 8th Earl of Uxbridge 16th Baron Paget 10th Baronet: Charles Alexander Vaughan Paget b. 1950 8th Marquess of Anglesey 9th ...
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey KG, GCB, GCH, PC (17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician.
Charles Paget, 8th Marquess of Anglesey This page was last edited on 16 July 2021, at 21:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Marquess of Tweeddale: 1694 Charles Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale: Scotland Lord Alistair Hay (brother) 5 The Marquess of Lothian: 1701 Ralph Kerr, 14th Marquess of Lothian: Scotland John Kerr (son) 6 The Marquess of Lansdowne: 1784 Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne: Great Britain Simon Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry: 7
The title of Marquess of Dublin, which is perhaps best described as Anglo-Irish, was the first to be created, in 1385, but like the next few creations, the title was soon forfeit. The title of Marquess of Pembroke , created in 1532 by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn , has the distinction of being the first English hereditary peerage granted to a ...
Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey (16 June 1875 – 14 March 1905), styled Lord Paget until 1880 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1880 and 1898, and nicknamed "Toppy", was a British peer who was notable during his short life for squandering his inheritance on a lavish social life and accumulating massive debts.