‘Anglesey’, Henry William Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 1820 circa (line engraving)

‘Anglesey’, Henry William Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 1820 circa. Line engraving by P Lightfoot after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Published by A H Baily and Company, 83 Cornhill, London, 1820 circa. Portrait of Henry William Paget (1768-1854) in the uniform of a colonel of the 7th (The Queen’s Own) Light Dragoons (Hussars) with the signature, ‘Anglesey’ below. Henry, Lord Paget commanded the 16th (or The Queen’s) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and the 7th (or the Queen’s Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) in the Low Countries in the late 1790s. He commanded the cavalry of Sir John Moore’s army in Spain and Portugal but from 1809 further service in the Peninsular War was ruled out by his elopement with the Duke of Wellington’s sister-in-law. In 1815, now the 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, Paget was given command of the British cavalry and horse artillery in Wellington’s army. He lost his leg at Waterloo when it was shattered by a piece of shot which narrowly missed Wellington. Uxbridge was created Marquess of Anglesey for his services at Waterloo and became Field Marshal in 1846.