Description: This is probably Thomas Catesby Paget, Lord Paget (1689 û 4 February 1742) who was a politician, styled Hon. Thomas Catesby Paget from 1712 to 1714.
Paget was born in 1689, the son of Hon. Henry Paget, later Earl of Uxbridge, and his wife Mary Catesby. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1715, he was elected Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, where his family was influential, as a Tory. Lord Paget (as he was styled from 1714) married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater on 6 May 1718, in Gray's Inn Chapel.
Lord Paget continued to sit for Staffordshire until 1727. He was appointed Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales in 1719, serving him through his accession as King George II in 1727 until 1736. He died at West Drayton on 4 February 1742, and was buried on 19 February in Westminster Abbey. From an original picture by Holbein in the collection of the Earl of Uxbridge at Beaudesent.
This image is one of a collection by the famous local antiquarian, Thomas Bateman, of Middleton by Youlgreave. (1821-1861). Bateman organized his collection by inserting them into a 4 volume copy of Lysons Magna Britannia, Derbyshire, creating a fascinating and unique illustrated record of the county. The purchase of the collection for Derbyshire Libraries was made possible by the generous bequest of Miss Frances Webb of Whaley Bridge, well known local historian, who died in December 2006.