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| | WILLIAM PAGET, 1ST BARON PAGET OF BEAUDESERT - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM PAGET, 1ST BARON PAGET OF BEAUDESERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | (1506-1563), English statesman, son of William Paget, one of the serjeants-at-mace of the city of London, was born in London in 1506, and was educated at St Pauls School, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, proceeding afterwards to the university of Paris. |
 | | At the latters death the earldom of lJxbridge and barony of Burton became extinct, the older barony of Paget of Beaudesert passing to his cousin Henry Bayly (1744-1812), heir general of the first baron, who in 1784 was created earl of Uxbridge. |
 | | Moore in the Peninsula, and was afterwards second in command under Sir Arthur Wellesley; the fifth, Sir Charles Paget (I7781839), served with distinction in the navy, and rose to the rank of vice-admiral. |
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