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Educated at Westminster School and Christchurch College, Oxford, Paget served in Parliament as MP for Carnarvon from 1790-96, and then for Milborne Port, 1796-1810. In 1793 he raised a regiment of infantry from his father's
Staffordshire estates, given the number of the 80th Foot at the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France. he fought in Flanders (1794) and in Holland (1799), and commanded the cavalry of Sir John Moore's army with great
distinction in Portugal and Spain during the Corrunna campaign of 1808-09. He won two important cavalry engagements at Sahagun and Benavente and helped cover the disastrous retreat over the mountains to Corunna. In 1815 he was
in command of the British cavalry and horse artillery under Wellington and served in this capacity at Waterloo, where he lost a leg (earning the nickname "One-Leg"). Later the same year he was created Marquis of Anglesey. In 1828 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, but only lasted a year because of his leniency toward the Catholics and his favoring of Catholic emancipation -- matters that brought him into conflict with Wellington, now Prime Minister. However, he was reappointed by Lord Grey in December 1830. Back in Ireland, he faced stiff opposition from O'Connell and retired in 1833. In 1846 he was made a Field Marshal.