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Henry
William Paget (1768 - 1854)
2nd Marquess of Anglesey
The Marquis of Anglesey was an army officer, Master-General of the
Ordnance (the branch dealing with military stores and materials).
He had been second-in-command to Wellington at Waterloo, where he
lost a leg in battle. By 1851 he and Wellington, both old and deaf,
were the only surviving senior commanders of the British forces
at Waterloo. At the opening of the Exhibition, they supported each
other in the procession, as the Queen noted in her diary: 'The old
Duke of Wellington & Ld. Anglesey walked arm in arm, which was a
touching sight.'.
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