Thomas Paget, Lord Paget

Thomas Catesby Paget or Pagett (1689 – 4 February 1742) was a British politician, styled Hon. Thomas Catesby Paget from 1712 to 1714, and subsequently with the courtesy title Lord Paget.

Paget was born in 1689, the son of Hon. Henry Paget, later Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife Mary Catesby. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Clare College, Cambridge. In the latter stages of the War of the Spanish Succession he was taken prisoner by French forces in southern Germany, as he tried to make his way to Italy. In 1715, he was elected Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, where his family was influential, as a Tory.

Lord Paget continued to sit for Staffordshire until 1727. He was appointed Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales in 1719, serving him through his accession as King George II in 1727 until 1736.

Paget died at West Drayton on 4 February 1742 (N.S.), and was buried on 19 February in Westminster Abbey.

Paget composed pieces in verse and prose; his verse has been described as exhibiting a "tough cynicism". They included:

His writings were collected in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse(1741).

Lord Paget (as he was styled from 1714) married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater on 6 May 1718, in Gray's Inn Chapel. They had two sons:

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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