BIOGEAPHICAL  MEMOIR

My father, the Hon. Arthur Paget, subsequently the
E-ight Hon. Sir Arthur Paget^ G.C.B., was the third
son of Henry (Bayly) Paget. This Henry had suc¬
ceeded to the Barony of Paget on November 17, 1769,
at the death of Henry, second Earl of Uxbridge and
Baron Paget of Beaudesert, co. Staffordshire, and was
by Patent created Earl of Uxbridge, co. of Middle¬
sex, on May 17, 1784; married in 1767, Jane, only
daughter of Dean Champagne of Clanmacnoise in
Ireland; and died March 13, 1812. His wife died
March 9, 1817.

Sir Arthur was born on January 15, 1771, and died
July 26, 1840.

I unfortunately possess no written record of my
father's earlier days, so that the materials for giving a
detailed biographical sketch of that period of his life are
almost entirely wanting; and, indeed, what I know of
his subsequent career is gathered only from the official
and private Papers which came into my possession on
the death of my mother in 1870, and which, owing to
my own diplomatic occupations, I have never had time
to look into until my period of active service came to
an end.

A great many of these Papers (I hope it may not h^