William Paget (Royal Navy officer, born 1769)

Captain William Paget (22 December 1769 – September 1794) was a British Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament.

[citation needed] He was educated at Westminster School from 1779 to 1781, prior to entering the Royal Navy.

[1] In 1790 he was returned to parliament for Anglesey, succeeding his uncle Nicholas Bayly, a seat he held until his death four years later.

His younger brother Sir Arthur Paget succeeded him as MP.

[2] Paget died at sea in September 1794, aged 24, after an old wound, which he originally received by a murder attempt in Constantinople some eight to ten years earlier, reopened.