Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget
(1818-1880), GeneralSitter in 3 portraits
The son of the Waterloo hero, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Paget was second in command at the disastrous charge of the light brigade, and one of the last to escape the famous ' Valley of Death'. Soon after he retired to England, subject to much criticism, but returned to the Crimea in February, 1855, serving out most of the remainder of the war.
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget
by Roger Fenton
salt print, published 25 March 1856
NPG Ax24910
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget ('Men of the Day. No. 161.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 October 1877
NPG D43818
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published 1877
NPG D6760
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