William Paget, 5th Baron Paget

Career He was a Parliamentarian with land in Buckinghamshire. At the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1641, he was made the Parliamentarian Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. However the following year he swapped sides to become a Royalist under King Charles I and so was dismissed from that role and replaced by Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton.

Personal life

On 28 June 1632 Paget married Lady Frances Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and his wife, Isabel Cope (a daughter of Sir Walter Cope). From 1637 to 1643 they lived at 43 King Street, Covent Garden.

William Paget, 6th Baron Paget (1637–1713), who married Frances Pierrepont, a daughter of Hon. Francis Pierrepont (son of the 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull). After her death, he married his cousin, Isabella Irby, a daughter of Sir Anthony Irby and Hon. Catherine Paget.

Descendants Through his son Henry, he was a grandfather of Dorothy Paget (d. ), who married Sir Edward Irby, 1st Baronet, and Brig.-Gen. Thomas Paget (d. 1741), the Governor of Menorca who married Mary Whitcombe (they were the parents of Caroline Paget (d. 1766), who married Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet in 1737).

Through his daughter Penelope, he is a direct ancestor to Charles Darwin.