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PAGET, HENRY, 2nd MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY, eldest son of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv), and his first wife; b. 6 Jul 1797; adm. 15 Jul 1807; left 1812; Lieut., 7th Light Dragoons 21 Jul 1814; Capt., 7 Feb 1817; 1st Life Guards 8 Mar 1820; Maj., 17 Jun 1823; Lieut. -Col., 5 Aug 1823; half-pay, unattached 15 May 1827; Brevet Col., 22 Jun 1838; styled Earl of Uxbridge 1815-54; MP Anglesey 1820-32; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Paget 15 Jan 1833; took Whig/Liberal whip; Lord Chamberlain of the Household 6 May 1839 – Sep 1841; Privy Councillor 22 May 1839; succ. father as 2nd Marquis of Anglesey 29 Apr 1854; Lord Lieut., Anglesey, from 18 May 1854; m. 1st, 5 Aug 1819 (remarried at St. George’s, Hanover Square 8 Feb 1820) Eleanora, second dau. of John Campbell MP, Shawfield; m. 2nd, 27 Aug 1833 Henrietta Maria, sister of George Talbot Bagot (qv); m. 3rd, 8 Mar 1860 Ellen Jane, divorced wife of James Morton Bell (IGI), and dau. of George Burnand; d. 6 Feb 1869.

PAGET, HENRY WILLIAM, 1ST MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY, eldest son of Henry Paget (formerly Bayly), 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and Jane, only dau. of Very Rev. Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise; b. 17 May 1768; adm. 8 Sep 1777; left 1784; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1784; MA 1786; Capt., Staffordshire Militia 12 Dec 1790; raised a company of infantry from his father’s tenantry which became known as the 80th Foot, of which he became Lieut. -Col., (temp. rank) 12 Sep 1793; served with it under Duke of York in Flanders 1794; Lieut., 7th Foot 11 Mar 1795; Capt., 23rd Foot 25 Mar 1795; Maj., 65th Foot 29 May 1795; Lieut. -Col. commandant, 80th Foot 30 May 1795; 16th Light Dragoons 16 Jun 1795; Brevet Col., 3 May 1796; Lieut. -Col., 7th Light Dragoons 6 Apr 1797; commanded cavalry brigade in Duke of York’s expedition to Netherlands 1799; Col., 7th Light Dragoons 16 May 1801 – Dec 1842; Major-Gen., 29 Apr 1802; Lieut. -Gen., 25 Apr 1808; in command of cavalry which covered Sir John Moore’s retreat to Corunna 1808; commanded an infantry division in Walcheren expedition 1809; commanded allied cavalry and horse artillery at battle of Waterloo, where he lost a leg; Gen., 12 Aug 1819; Col., Royal Horse Guards, from 20 Dec 1842; Field Marshal 9 Nov 1846; MP Caernarvon 1790-6, Milborne Port 1796 – Jun 1804, 1806 – Jan 1810; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Uxbridge 13 Mar 1812; created Marquis of Anglesey 4 Jul 1815; supported Tory governments to 1829; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance (with a seat in the Cabinet) 30 Apr 1827 – 29 Jan 1828; Privy Councillor 30 Apr 1827; Lord Lieut., Ireland 27 Feb 1828 – dismissal Jan 1829, for adopting conciliatory attitude to Roman Catholic claims; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 6 Mar 1828; reappointed Lord Lieut. Ireland by incoming Whig government 23 Dec 1830, holding post to resignation on health grounds Sep 1833; took Whig whip in House of Lords 1830 onwards; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance (without seat in Cabinet) 8 Jul 1846 – 27 Feb 1852; Lord Lieut., Anglesey, from 28 Apr 1812, and Lord Lieut., Staffordshire, from 3 Feb 1849; GCB 2 Jan 1815; GCH 1816; KG 19 Feb 1818; Busby Trustee 27 May 1820; m. 1st, 25 Jul 1795 Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers, third dau. of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey; m. 2nd, 1810 Lady Charlotte Cadogan, divorced wife of Hon. Henry Wellesley (afterwards 1st Earl Cowley), and sister of Hon. William Bromley Cadogan (qv); d. 29 Apr 1854. DNB.

PAGET, HENRY WILLIAM GEORGE, 3rd MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY, only son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquis of Anglesey (qv), and his first wife; b. 9 Dec 1821; adm. 7 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); left Jul 1837; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 21 May 1841; retd. 23 May 1845; MP (Whig) South Staffordshire Feb 1854-7; styled Earl of Uxbridge 1854-69; succ. father as 3rd Marquis of Anglesey 6 Feb 1869; took Liberal whip, House of Lords; DL Staffordshire 1851; m. 7 Jun 1845 Sophia, dau. of James Eversfield, Denne Park, Sussex; d. 30 Jan 1880.

PAGET, HON. SIR EDWARD, brother of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); b. 3 Nov 1775; at school 1791; left Easter 1792; while at school he received such a thrashing from one of the bigger boys that it was for some time doubtful whether he would recover from the injuries inflicted upon him, but he would never reveal the identity of his assailant (The Paget Papers, 1896, vi-vii); Cornet and Sub-Lieut., 1st Life Guards 23 Mar 1792; Capt., 54th Foot 1 Dec 1792; Maj., 14 Nov 1793; Lieut. -Col., 28th Foot 30 Apr 1794; Brevet Col. and ADC to King 1 Jan 1798; Brig. -Gen. (in Ireland) Oct 1803; Major-Gen., 1 Jan 1805; Col., 80th Foot 23 Feb 1808 – Dec 1815; Lieut. -Gen., 4 Jun 1811; Col., 28th Foot, from 26 Dec 1815; Gen., 27 May 1825; served in Flanders and Netherlands, at capture of Minorca, and in Egypt, where he was wounded 21 Mar 1801; commanded the reserve at Corunna 16 Jan 1809; conducted advance from Coimbra, and lost right arm in action before Oporto 12 May 1809; second-in-command to Wellington in Peninsular campaign 1811, but was taken prisoner a few months after his appointment while reconnoitring alone near Burgos, and so lost the rest of the campaign; Governor of Ceylon 1820-2; Commander-in-Chief, India 1822-5; responsible for conduct of campaign in Burma 1824; Governor, RMC Sandhurst 25 Mar 1829; Governor of Chelsea Hospital from 1837; MP Caernarvon 1796-1806, Milborne Port 5 Dec 1810-20; a Groom of the Bedchamber to George IV as Prince Regent and King 6 Jun 1816 – Oct 1821; KB 12 Jun 1812; GCB 2 Jan 1815; m. 1st, 22 May 1805 Hon. Frances Bagot, fourth dau. of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (qv); m. 2nd, 22 Feb 1815 Lady Harriet Legge, fourth dau. of George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth; d. 13 May 1849. DNB.

PAGET, HON. SIR ARTHUR, brother of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); b. 15 Jan 1771; adm. 10 Apr 1780; KS 1783; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void by absence 22 Dec 1792 (not having resided since 1790); Secretary to Embassy, St. Petersburg 1791-4; MP Anglesey 22 Nov 1794-1807; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1794, to Elector Palatine 1798-9, to Naples 1800-1 and to Vienna 1801-5; Privy Councillor 4 Jan 1804; Ambassador to Constantinople Jun – Oct 1807; KB 21 May 1804; GCB 2 Jan 1815; m. 16 Feb 1809 Lady Augusta Fane, divorced wife of John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (afterwards 1st Earl of Morley), and second dau. of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (qv); d. 26 Jul 1840. DNB.

PACKER, WINCHCOMBE HOWARD, son of Robert Packer MP, Shellingford, Berks., and Mary, dau. of Sir Henry Winchcombe, Bart., MP; b. 20 Nov 1702; in under school lists 1715-7; MP Berkshire from 5 May 1731; d. 21 Aug 1746.

PACKER, JOHN, son of Thomas Packer, Twickenham, Middlesex, Clerk of the Privy Seal, and Margaret Mauntlow; b. 12 Nov 1572; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590; BA 1593/4; Grand Tour (France); Secretary to Sir Henry Nevill, Ambassador in Paris; Envoy to Denmark 1610; Secretary to Earl of Somerset 1612, and subsequently to Sir George Villiers (1st Duke of Buckingham); Prothonotary of the Chancery, jointly with Francis Godolphin 13 Mar 1614; Clerk of Privy Seal 6 Sep 1618 – suspended by 13 Nov 1643 (holding post under reversionary grant dated 11 Jul 1604); a favourite at Court, and “was offered many times to be made Secretary of State, but always refused it” (HMC 10th report, pt. vi, 174); purchased manor of Groombridge, Speldhurst, Kent, and rebuilt Groombridge Chapel in gratitude for the safe return from Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales; MP West Looe 1628-9; a Commissioner for enquiring into abuses of the Fleet Prison 1635; declined to loan money to Charles I 1640, and thenceforth an ally of the parliamentary opposition; a Visitor of the University of Oxford 1 May 1647; a liberal benefactor to religious and charitable causes; a collection of letters and state papers formed by Packer was calendared HMC 2nd Report, 49-63, when in the possession of J. B. Fortescue, and a selection of them was edited for the Camden Society by S. R. Gardiner under the title The Fortescue Papers; a book of Greek and Latin verses composed by Packer when at Cambridge is Lansdowne MS 693 in the British Library; lic. to m. 3 Jul 1613 Philippa, sister of John Mylles (qv); d. 9 Feb 1648/9. DNB.

OSBORNE, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN, 5TH DUKE OF LEEDS, youngest son of Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (qv); b. 29 Jan 1750/1; styled Marquis of Carmarthen 1761-89; in school list 1764; left Whitsun 1767; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Jun 1767; MA 1769; DCL 7 Jul 1773; Grand Tour (Italy) 1769-71; MP Eye 22 Mar – 30 Sep 1774, Helston 1774 – 15 Mar 1775; called up to House of Lords in father’s barony as Baron Osborne of Kiveton 15 May 1776; a Lord of the Bedchamber 5 Jun 1776 – Dec 1777; Lord Chamberlain to Queen Charlotte Dec 1777-80; Privy Councillor 24 Dec 1777; opposed elevation of Lord George Germain (qv) to the peerage Feb 1782; appointed Ambassador to Paris 9 Feb 1783, but resigned on change of ministry; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 23 Dec 1783 – 21 Apr 1791; succ. father as 5th Duke of Leeds 23 Mar 1789; FRS 1 Apr 1773; member, Society of Dilettanti 1774; FSA 20 Jun 1776; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire East Riding 1 Aug 1778 – 22 Mar 1780, and from 8 Apr 1782; Busby Trustee 22 Apr 1790; his Political Memoranda were edited by Oscar Browning, 1884 (Camden Soc. Pub., 2nd series, vol. xxxv); m. 29 Nov 1773 (divorced 31 May 1779) Amelia D’Arcy, Baroness Conyers, only dau. of Robert D’Arcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse (qv); m. 2nd, 11 Oct 1788 Catherine, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Adelaide, dau. of Thomas Anguish, Accountant-Gen., Court of Chancery; d. 31 Jan 1799. DNB.

OSBORNE, EDWARD, VISCOUNT LATIMER, eldest son of Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of Danby PC (afterwards 1st Duke of Leeds), Lord Treasurer and Lord President of the Council, and Lady Bridget Bertie, sister of Hon. Charles Bertie (qv); b. 3 Apr 1654; adm.; Grand Tour (France) 1671; styled Viscount Latimer from 1674; a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II 31 Oct 1674 – 6 Feb 1685; MP Corfe Castle 5 Apr 1677-9, Buckingham 1679-81; Col., Militia Foot, Yorkshire West Riding, from 1677; DL Yorkshire, West and North Ridings 1688; m. 4 May 1674 Elizabeth, dau. of Simon Bennet, Beachampton, Bucks; d. of syphilis 16 Feb 1689.

OSBORN, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir George Osborn, Bart. (qv), and his first wife; b. 3 Dec 1772; adm. 2 May 1781 (G); in school list 1786; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1790; BA 1793; MA 1814; DCL 1834; MP Bedfordshire 15 Sep 1794-1807, Cockermouth 12 Jul 1807 – Jun 1808, Queenborough 1812-8, Wigtown Burghs 21 Mar 1821 – Jan 1824; a Lord of the Admiralty 1811 – Feb 1824; succ. father as 5th baronet 29 Jun 1818; a Commissioner for Auditing the Public Accounts from 26 Jan 1824; Col., Bedfordshire Militia 12 Jan 1805 (still 1820); m. 14 Sep 1809 Frederica Louisa, illegitimate dau. of Sir Charles Davers, Bart., MP; d. 28 Aug 1848.