biography
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Anglesey, Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of
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pronunciation:
[angglsee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1854)
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| biography:
| British soldier, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and sat in parliament at intervals between 1790 and 1810. He served in the army with distinction in Flanders (1794), Holland (1799), and the Peninsular War (1808), and for his services as commander of the British cavalry at Waterloo (1815), where he lost a leg, he was made Marquess of Anglesey. In 1828 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, where he advocated Catholic Emancipation. From 1846 to 1852 he was Master-General of the Ordnance. |
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