Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey

George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey DL, FSA, FRHistS, FRSL (8 October 1922 – 13 July 2013),[1] styled Earl of Uxbridge until 1947, was a British peer and a military historian.

At the time of his death in 2013 it was believed they were the only living married couple apart from Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to have attended the Coronation.

[2][4] He gained the rank of major in the Royal Horse Guards (Blues) and fought in the Second World War.

[2][4] Lord Anglesey wrote the books The Capel Letters 1814–1817 (1955), consisting of the edited correspondence between the first Marquess's sister in England and his nieces; One Leg: The Life and Letters of 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1961), a biography of his ancestor; Sergeant Pearman's Memoirs (1968); and A History of the British Cavalry 1816–1919, Volumes I–VIII, which began appearing in 1973, and has been described as "the definitive history" of this branch of the army.

[2] Lord Anglesey married Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan, daughter of the playwright and novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan, on 16 October 1948 and they had five children:[2][4] He gave his Anglesey home, Plas Newydd, to the National Trust in 1976, although he and his wife continued to live in a suite on the upper floor; with 169 acres of the surrounding estate.