Bagenall, Bayly, Blackney, Irby, Wallis] ENGLAND, WALES, & IRELAND
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182 List of Parliamentary Families PAGET I [Bagenall, Bayly, Blackney, Irby, Wallis] ENGLAND, WALES, & IRELAND Marquess of Anglesey (1815- UK) Origins: Possibly descended from an old Staffordshire family with an MP 1455-61, the Paget origins were obscure. Their fortunes were made by the 1 Baron, the son of a City of London official of small fortune, who became Clerk of the Privy Council 1540, a diplomat, and Secretary of State under Henry VIII. Kt 1543. Baron 1549. First MP 1529. Another MP 1555. A younger son of the 5 Baron Paget went to Ireland. His granddaughter married Sir Nicholas Bayly 2 Bt of Plas Newydd. Their son succeeded to the Paget Barony and was created Earl of Uxbridge. A younger son succeeded to Ballyarthur, Wicklow. 1. Henry Paget 1 Earl of Uxbridge – Staffordshire 1695-1712 2. Thomas Paget – Staffordshire 1715-22 3. Thomas Paget – Ilchester 1722-27 4. Henry Paget 1 Marquess of Anglesey – Caernarvon 1790-96 Milborne Port 1796- 1804 1806-10 5. William Paget – Anglesey 1790-94 6. Air Arthur Paget – Anglesey 1794-1807 7. Sir Edward Paget – Caernarvon 1796-1806 Milborne Port 1810-20 8. Sir Charles Paget – Milborne Port 1804-06 Caernarvon 1806-26 1831-34 9. Berkeley Paget – Anglesey 1807-20 Milborne Port 1820-26 10. Henry Paget 2 Marquess of Anglesey – Anglesey 1820-32 11. Lord William Paget – Caernarvon 1826-30 Andover 1841-47 12. Frederick Paget – Beaumaris 1832-47 13. Lord Alfred Paget – Lichfield 1837-65 14. Lord William Paget – Andover 1841-47 15. Lord Clarence Paget – Sandwich 1847-52 1857-76 16. Lord George Paget – Beaumaris 1847-57 17. Henry Paget 3 Marquess of Anglesey – S. Stafford 1854-57 18. Almeric Paget 1 Baron Queenborough – Cambridge 1910-17 Seats: Beaudesert Hall, Staffordshire (medieval, acq. 1546, built 1573-83, add. 1771- 72, fire 1909, rebuilt 1909-12, family departed 1920, demolished 1930-35, estate sold 1932); Plas Newydd, Anglesey (Griffth family acq. c. 1470, passed to Baylys and then to Pagets 1737, built c. 1480, rebuilt 1793-99, remod. 1930s, NT); West Drayton, Middlesex (acq. and built 1537-47, demolished before 1774, sold 1786) Estates: Bateman 33422 (E, W, & I) 112609; at Ballyarthur 3685 (I) 2011. Worth £1,500 pa in 1563. Rubinstein – the 1 Earl left £150,000 probate in 1812. Owned 8,000 acres in 2001. List of Parliamentary Families 183 Titles: Baron Paget 1548- E; Baron Burton 1712-69 GB; Earl of Uxbridge 1714-69 GB; Earl of Uxbridge 1784- GB; Baron Queenborough 1918-49 UK; Baronet 1730- Peers: 12 peers 1660-1713 1712-1854 1833-1945 1918-45 6 Lds Lt 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th 1 in Cabinet 1827-33 1 KG 19th Notes: The 6 Marquess died in 1904 leaving over half a million pounds of debt. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 Barons and 1 and 2 Earls first cr. and 1 Marquess and thirteen others in ODNB. Baron Boston (1761- GB) Origins: Came to Lincolnshire from Cumberland in the early 14th century and became prominent by the 16th century through the law. First MP 1545, for Boston (1553). Another MP 1589-1621 also for Boston. The 1 Baron Boston succeeded in 1743 to the unsettled estates of the 1 Earl of Uxbridge, his cousin in 1769. 1. Sir Anthony Irby – Boston 1628 1640-48 1656 1659 1660-81 2. Sir Edward Irby 1 Bt – Boston 1702-08 3. William Irby 1 Baron Boston – Launceston 1735-47 Bodmin 1747-61 Seats: Irby Hall, Lincolnshire (purch. 1552, became a farm house 18th c.); Llanidan House, Anglesey (built 1631, purch. by Pagets 1740, passed by inher. to Irbys 1769, leased out later 18th c., remod. 18th c., owned into 20th c.); Boyland Hall, Norfolk (purch. 1534 by Garney family, built 1571, passed by mar. to Irbys 1804, remod. soon after, contents sold 1938, demolished 1947); Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire (built 1583, fire 1775, purch. and built 1778, fire 1795, restored, rebuilt 1865-68, sold 1926); Lligwy, Anglesey (purch. by Pagets 1740, passed to Irbys by inher. 1769, held at least until 1945) Estates: Bateman 14934 (E & W) 19091 Title: Baronet 1704- Peers: 7 peers 1761-1877 1881-1945 Notes: See Hopkins for inherited property. Four in ODNB. Bayly (Baily) Origins: The 1 Bt was a grandson of a Bishop of Bangor (d. 1631) of obscure origin. The 2 Bt inherited Plas Newydd from the Griffith family by marriage (acq. c. 1470). His marriage to Caroline Paget brought the Paget Baronry to their son, the father of the 1 Marquess of Anglesey. 1. Nicholas Bayly – {Newry 1661-66} 2. Sir Edward Bayly 1 Bt – {Newry 1705-14} 184 List of Parliamentary Families 3. Sir Nicholas Bayly 2 Bt – Anglesey 1734-41 1747-61 1770-74 4. Nicholas Bayly – Anglesey 1784-90 5. Lewis Bayly Wallis – Ilchester 1799-1802 Seats: Plas Newydd, Anglesey (see above); Mount Bagnel(l), Louth (acq. by mar. 1712, sold 19th c.) Title: Title: Baronet 1730- 1 Ld Lt 18th Notes: Succeeded to Stalbridge, Dorset by inher. 1754 (see Walter). Three in ODNB. Bagenall (Bagenal) Origins: John Bagenall was a tailor in Newcastle-under-Lyme and five times Mayor 1529-33. A son gained a place at court as a “gamester, dicer, and whoremoneger”. (Bindoff, The House of Commons, I, 363) Metoric rise under Edward VI as a soldier and official. To Ireland c. 1540. Gained estates in Down 1552. The family became moneylenders. Foreclosed on the mortgage on Plas Newydd in the 1580s. First MP 1547. One further MP 1555. To Ireland as a soldier and official. First {MP 1579}. Two additional {MPs 1585-1613}. Marshall General of the Army in Ireland early 17th century. Nicholas Bagenall left his Welsh estates to his cousin Edward Bayly in 1712 (see above). An Irish branch continued in Carlow (see Burgh). The estates in northern Ireland went to the Needhams. 1. Nicholas Bagenall – Anglesey 1661-79 2. Beauchamp Bagenal – {Enniscorthy 1761-68 County Carlow 1768-76 1778-83} 3. Walter Bagenal – County Carlow 1802-12 Seats: Mount Bagenal(l), Louth (passed by mar. from Bagealls to Baylys 1712); Dunleckney Manor, Carlow (acq. 17th c., passes by inher. (mar. 1785) to Newtons early 19th c.); Killedmonde, Carlow; Bert House, Kildare (built 1725-30, add. early 19th c., passed by mar. to De Burghs of Dromkeen, Limerick, etc., 19th c.); Bagenalstown House (Moneybeg), Carlow (acq. early 17th c., built 18th c., sold 1760s) Estates: Held 30,000 acres in 1760 worth £6,681 pa, but much sold. Down to a small estate by 1812. Notes: Dudley Bagenall was {MP 1689} in James II’s Parliament. Two in ODNB. Blackney Origins: Walter Blackney, of a Roman Catholic family, inherited in the 1680s Ballycormack, Carlow from his maternal grandfather Dudley Bagenall, son of George Bagenall {MP 1613} of Dunleckney. The latter estate also passed to the Blackneys. List of Parliamentary Families 185 1. Walter Blackney – County Carlow 1831-34 Seats: Ballyellin (Ballyellen) House, Carlow (purch. 1781, sold later 19th c.); Dunleckney Manor, Carlow (acq. and built by Bagenals c. 1610, passed to Newton family mid-19th c. by mar., rebuilt 1845-57, sold early 20th c.); Ballycormack, Carlow (acq. early 17th c. by Bagenals, inher. by mar. by Blackneys 1685) Notes: The Blackneys ceased to live at Ballyellin in the later 19th century. PAGET II Baron Paget of Northampton (1974-90 UKLife) Origins: Farmers in Leicestershire since the 15th century. The first MP the son of a banker, and he was also a banker until his death in 1861. High Sheriff 1869. 1. Thomas Paget – Leicestershire 1831-32 2. Charles Paget – Nottingham 1856-65 3. Thomas Paget – S. Leicestershire 1867-68 1880-86 4. Thomas Paget – Bosworth Div. Leicestershire 1922-23 5. Reginald Paget 1 Baron Paget of Northampton – Northampton 1945-74 Seats: Meadow House (Humberstone Hall), Leicestershire (acq. and built mid-19th c., family departed 1923, sold 1927 for £10,000); Ibstock, Leicestershire (acq. 1548, sold c. 1860); Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire (built 1792-94, add. 1824, purch. 1847, sold 1930, demolished 1952); Lubenham, Leicestershire (purch. 1843, sold 20th c.) Estates: Bateman 4782 (E) 10884. 1 Baron left £2,300,000 in 1990. Title: Baronet 1897-1936 Notes: 1 Baron and two others in ODNB. PAKENHAM [Aungier, Conolly, Hanger, Hare, Mahon, Townsend] IRELAND & ENGLAND Earl of Longford (1677-1704 I; 1785- I) Origins: The Aungier family was granted Whitefriars, Middlesex by James I and created Barons in 1621. The father of the 1 Baron was a lawyer and landowner who went to Ireland c. 1600 as Master of the Rolls, and he acquired extensive estates there. First MP 1589. The Earls of Longford descended from the senior line of the family, while the brother of the 1 Baron Aungier (otherwise Hanger) established a cadet line, the Barons Coleraine. The sister of the 2 Earl married Sir James Cuffe. Their son, Michael, had a daughter and heiress who married Sir Thomas Pakenham. She was created Countess of Longford in her own right and her husband 1 Baron. The first prominent 186 List of Parliamentary Families Pakenham was a soldier who came to Ireland during the Civil War and his successor held the office of Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland in 1693. First {MP 1661}. 1. Francis Aungier 1 Earl of Longford – {King’s County, Longford, Westmeath 1659} Surrey 1660 Arundel 1661-79 2. Henry Pakenham – {Navan 1661-66} 3. Sir Thomas Pakenham – {Augher 1695-99} 4. Ambrose Aungier 2 Earl of Longford – {Longford 1697-99} 5. Edward Pakenham – {County Westmeath 1713-21} 6. Thomas Pakenham 1 Baron Longford – {Longford 1745-56} 7. Edward Pakenham 2 Baron Longford – {County Longford 1765-66} 8.