He was appointed as Captain of the Burton-on-Trent Troop of the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry on 26 March 1839.

[4] Anglesey was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Staffordshire South in 1854, a seat he held until 1857.

On 7 June 1845 in her home parish of Horsham, he married Sophia Eversfield,[6] born 24 June 1819, the daughter of James Eversfield, of Denne Park, and his wife Mary Crew, daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew.

He died in Westminster on 30 January 1880, aged 58, and was succeeded by his half-brother, Lord Henry Paget.

His widow moved to Fordingbridge and later to Tunbridge Wells, where she died on 7 December 1901.