I am starting this round with the flamboyant 5th Earl of Anglesey,  who “seems only to have existed for the purpose of giving a melancholy and unneeded illustration of the truth that a man with the finest prospects, may, by the wildest folly and extravagance, play away an uniterable life, and have lived in vain.”

Henry Cyril Paget was born in 1875 to an illustrious military family. The 1st Marquis of Anglesey had been granted the title for his bravery at Waterloo and Henry’s grandfather was Sir Henry William Paget MP who had commanded the cavalry with great distinction in Spain. Read more ›››