Admiral Lord Clarence Edward Paget GCB PC (17 June 1811 – 22 March 1895) was a British naval officer, politician, and sculptor.
Born the younger son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Paget in 1827 like many younger sons of nobility entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman on the second-rate ship-of-the-line HMS Asia and took part in the Battle of Navarino in 1827.
[1] Paget attempted to enter Parliament as a Liberal for Southampton in 1837, but was returned as a member for Sandwich in 1847, retaining the seat until July 1852.
[1] He commanded the second-rate ship-of-the-line HMS Princess Royal in the expedition to the Baltic in 1854 during the Crimean War (1854–1856).
[1] In 1852 Paget married Martha Stuart, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bt.