Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

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Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

by William Salter
oil on canvas, 1834-1840
21 in. x 17 in. (533 mm x 432 mm)
Bequeathed by William Dalziel Mackenzie, 1950
Primary Collection
NPG 3693

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  • William Salter (1804-1875), Portrait painter. Artist or producer associated with 93 portraits.

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  • Foister, Susan, Cardinal Newman 1801-90, 1990 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 20 May 1990), p. 22 Read entry

    After a highly distinguished military career, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo, where he commanded the cavalry, Lord Anglesey joined the government. In 1828, when agitation for Catholic emancipation was at its height, he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He went determined 'not [to] be considered either Protestant or Catholic', and quickly concluded that the Irish Catholic Church should be disestablished, and that the resultant revenues should be used to relieve Irish poverty. The Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, strongly disagreed, and Anglesey was recalled to England, but the Catholic Emancipation Act was passed in Parliament in 1829. Anglesey was made Lord-Lieutenant again in 1830 by the new Prime Minister, Earl Grey, but then encountered O'Connell's campaign for the repeal of the Union: 'the question is whether he [O'Connell] or I shall govern Ireland'. Anglesey did not succeed in damping down Irish agitation before he left his post in 1833, but he was active in establishing a system of state education with Archbishop Whateley.

    Lord Anglesey is shown in his Hussar's uniform; his decorations include his Waterloo medal; this is one of a series of studies for 'The Waterloo Banquet', now at Stratfield Saye House.

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Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).
Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.

Art and science

Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.

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Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.
Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.

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