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Battle of Balaclava. General Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget KCB (16 March 1818 – 30 June 1880) was a British soldier during the Crimean War who took part in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade. He later became a Whig politician.
- Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (grandfather)
Lord Alfred Paget. Lord Alfred Henry Paget CB (26 June 1816 – 24 August 1888 [1]) was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1865. Early life. Paget was the sixth son of William Paget, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and the former Hon. Charlotte Cadogan.
His sixth son, Lord George Paget, was a general in the Army. Lord Alfred Paget is a descendant, and he was a prominent courtier and politician during the reign of Queen Victoria. Lady Adelaide Paget (1820–1890), daughter of the first marquess, as Lady Adelaide Cadogan, was a prodigious author, most noted for her seminal work on ...
- Benedict Paget, Earl of Uxbridge
- Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge
- Earl of Uxbridge, Baron Paget, Baronet 'of Plas-Newydd'
- Charles Paget, 8th Marquess of Anglesey
This document has been taken from its primary location on The Victorian Web. Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget was born on 16 March 1818. He was the sixth son of Henry William Paget, first Marquis of Anglesey. Paget was educated at Westminster School; on 25 July 1834 he was given a commission as a Cornet in the First Lifeguards.
By Eric Niderost. When Lt. Col. Lord George Paget rose early in the morning of October 25, 1854, he had no inkling of, as he later put it, “the day’s work in store for us.”. Paget was part of an Anglo-French expeditionary force now besieging the Russian naval base at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.
He was awarded the K.C.B. in 1871. Paget represented Beaumaris in the whig interest from 1847 to 1857. He died very unexpectedly at his residence in Farm Street, Mayfair, London, 30 June 1880. Paget's Crimean Journals were printed for private circulation in 1875 after which he revised them, and they were published by his son in 1881.
Lucan rode out to inspect his vedettes deployed in South Valley at dawn on the day of the expected attack. Accompanying him was Colonel Lord George Paget, who was in temporary command of the Light Brigade given that Cardigan routinely slept on Raglan’s luxury yacht Dryadanchored off Balaclava.
