Henry Paget: life of the week
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Flamboyant late 19th century aristocrat Henry Padgett was certainly no stranger to attention in his own lifetime, and now he's the subject of new film Mad Fabulous, which was released here in the UK at the start of June. But who was Padgett's and what did he do to attract so much notice? In this episode of the History Extra podcast, historian and author Michael Hall guides Charlotte Fosper through the extravagant life of the man who became known as the Dancing Marquess. Today we're going to be chatting all about the life of Henry Paggett, who has become known as the Dancing Marquess. But for those who might not have heard of Henry, can you tell me, in a nutshell,
Who was he? He was the fifth Marquess of Anglesey, and he was very rich indeed, because his family, the Pagets, are probably best remembered now for one of the great heroes of Waterloo, somebody who became the first Marquess of Anglesey, who was, I think, I'm not a military historian, but he was by Wellington's side at Waterloo, and this famous exchange that he said, oh, Good God, sir, I think I've lost my leg, and and Wellington said, Good God, sir, so you have. And so he became one legged Marquess. And if you go to Place Noid, which is their house on Anglese, there's a rather good museum about the first Marquess of Anglesey and his military career, and you can see his false leg.
But the family were very rich, not because of anything on Anglesey, although they did own copper mines there. It was because they owned very large estates in Staffordshire, which gave them a lot of money through coal mine and other industries there. So they were super rich aristocratic family. Their sort of historic seat was on Anglesey, but they also had major properties in England.
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