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Plas Newydd (Welsh for 'new hall') is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. The current building has its origins in 1470, and evolved over the centuries to become one of Anglesey's principal residences.
Plas Newydd remained in the possession of the Paget family until 1976, when it was donated to the National Trust. Today, the house and gardens are open to the public, and the house contains an art collection that includes a number of photographs of the 5th Marquess in theatrical costume. [13] [14]
The Bayly, later Paget Baronetcy, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey and of Mount Bagenall in the County of Louth, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1730 for Edward Bayly, who had previously represented Newry in the Irish House of Commons.
The barony of Paget and the family estates passed to the late Earl's cousin Henry Bayly, 10th Baron Paget. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, and Caroline, Lady Bayly, daughter of Brigadier-General Thomas Paget, son of the Hon. Henry Paget, second son of William Paget, 5th Baron Paget. He assumed in 1770 by Royal ...
The Paget Baronetcy, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey and Mount Bagenall in the County of Down, was originally created as the Bayly Baronetcy in 1730 for Edward Bayly in the Baronetage of Ireland. His grandson, the third baronet Henry Bayly, adopted the surname Paget in 1770 after inheriting the title of Lord Paget.
Bayly died in December 1782 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son from his first marriage, Henry, who had already succeeded as 10th Baron Paget through his mother in 1769 and was later created Earl of Uxbridge. He was the father of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, hero of the Battle of Waterloo. Lady Bayly died in May 1818. [1]
Plas Newydd, seat of the Bayly (and Bayley-Paget) family. In 1767 Lord Uxbridge married Jane, daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise, a descendant of a well-known Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland, and his wife Jane Forbes.
Lady Elizabeth Sophia Rhiannon Paget (b. 1954) Lord Rupert Edward Llewellyn Paget (b. 1957) Lady Amelia Myfanwy Polly Paget (b. 1963) He gave his Anglesey home, Plas Newydd, to the National Trust in 1976, although he and his wife continued to live in a suite on the upper floor; with 169 acres of the surrounding estate. The house has been open ...