[1] Paget was commissioned colonel of the newly raised Staffordshire Militia on 22 April 1776 during the War of American Independence.

He was also Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire between 1801 and 1812, Constable of Caernarfon Castle, Ranger of the Forest of Snowdon, Steward of Bardney, and Vice-Admiral of North Wales.

They had twelve children:[3] Lord Uxbridge died in March 1812, aged 67,[7] and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Henry, who gained fame at the Battle of Waterloo and was created Marquess of Anglesey.

[1] He owned Beaudesert, Cannock Chase in the 18th century, in which he hired James Wyatt to remodel the interior of the hall in 1771-72.

When the Surbiton Park estate was built on its grounds in the 1850s, a street was named Uxbridge Road in honour of him and his heir Henry, who inherited it.