Letter from the Marquis of Anglesey, with related material.
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Letter from the Marquis of Anglesey, with related material.
Classmark: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Anglesey
Creator(s): Paget, Henry William
Date(s): c.1852-1854
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 letter (2 ff. conjoined), 1 portrait, 1 engraving, and 1 press-cutting containing a biography and further portrait, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8074
Description
Comprises 1 autograph letter from Anglesey to Rev. T.R. Ross concerning the latter's sermon preached at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington (with transcript), 1 engraved portrait of the 'Marquis of Anglesea' including his coat of arms, 1 engraving of 'Beaudesert, near Lichfield, the seat of the late Marquis of Anglesey', and a printed biography of him extracted from a newspaper during the latter part of his life with another engraved portrait of him.
The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also a transcript of the letter, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Biography or history
Sir Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (1768-1854), was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. After serving as an M.P. for some years, he became a commander in the Napoleonic Wars and served with distinction at Waterloo, where he lost a leg. For this he was created Marquis of Anglesey in 1815 and in 1828 was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland. He adopted a conciliatory attitude to the Catholics and, in consequence, had differences with the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington. He retired in 1833, after establishing the Board of Education, and in 1846 became a Field-Marshal.
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