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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]
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 ...
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 .
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The following year the 27 metre column was raised in his honour, sited to the north of Plas Newydd. [8] At the end of the 19th century Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey inherited the family seat, which he renamed Anglesey Castle.
Lord Anglesey wrote the books The Capel Letters 1814–1817 (1955), consisting of the edited correspondence between the first Marquess's sister in England and his nieces; One Leg: The Life and Letters of 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1961), a biography of his ancestor; Sergeant Pearman's Memoirs (1968); and A History of the British Cavalry 1816 ...
Anglesey was the second son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, by his second wife Henrietta Bagot, fourth daughter of Charles Bagot and Lady Anne Wellesley (niece of Duke of Wellington). On 30 January 1880 he succeeded to the titles of 5th Earl of Uxbridge, co. Middlesex, 7th Baronet Bayly of Plas Newydd , Anglesey and Mount Bagenall ...
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