MARK OF JOHN PARKER AND EDWARD WAKELIN, LONDON, 1771

SIR HENRY BAYLEY 3RD BT, 9TH BARON PAGET AND 1ST EARL OF UXBRIDGE
Henry Bayly, later Paget, was born into a prominent North Welsh family as the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Bayly 2nd Bt. (1709-1782) of Plas Newydd, Anglesey, and his wife Caroline Paget, daughter of Brigadier-General Thomas Paget and a great-granddaughter of William Paget, the 5th Baron Paget. On the death of his mother's second cousin, Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, in 1769, Bayly succeeded as the 9th Baron Paget and inherited the extensive Paget estates centred on the Elizabethan mansion Beaudesert, which he remodelled employing the fashionable architect James Wyatt (1746-1813). Wyatt also worked of Bayly’s North Welsh seat Plas Newydd. In 1770 Bayly took the arms and name of Paget by Royal Licence. In 1782, he succeeded his father in the Bayly baronetcy. He married Jane, the daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise, in 1767.

During the War of American Independence Paget was commissioned as Colonel of the newly raised Staffordshire Militia in 1776. He resigned in 1781 but was re-appointed in 1783 and remained in command until his death. In 1782, Paget was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey. In 1784, he was elevated to the Earldom of Uxbridge. He held other positions, including the Lord Lieutenancy of Staffordshire, Constable of Caernarfon Castle, Ranger of the Forest of Snowdon, Steward of Bardsey, and Vice-Admiral of North Wales.
Uxbridge died in 1812 at the age of sixty-seven and was succeeded by his eldest son Henry, who gained fame for his role in the Battle of Waterloo and was later created Marquess of Anglesey.

These sauceboats were part of a set of twelve, with matching salt-cellars, made by Parker and Wakelin in 1771. They are based upon the designs of the King's architect Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) for a silver service for the 4th Duke of Marlborough. Chambers' service for the Duke, which was executed by Parker and Wakelin in 1768, included '16 fine festoon Sauceboats.' The Paget sauceboats are more elaborately embellished than the Marlborough model, with paterae centering the husk festoons and bold gadrooning.

HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, 2ND EARL OF UXBRIDGE AND 1ST MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY
Henry William, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854) was the eldest son of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge (d.1812) and his wife Jane (see above). Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, Paget entered Parliament in 1790 representing the Caernarvon boroughs and later for Milborne Port. He served in the Staffordshire militia and in 1793 raised a regiment of infantry from his father's tenantry. In 1794 he, along with his regiment, joined the army fighting the French in Flanders under the Duke of York. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the 7th Light Dragoons in 1797, rising in rank to Lieutenant-General by 1808. He distinguished himself as a cavalry officer in Spain, Sir John Moore writing in 1808 'Our cavalry is very superior in quality to any the French have, and the right spirit has been infused into them by the example and instruction of their two leaders, Lord Paget and Brigadier-General Stewart.'

He was recalled to the army in 1815 to command the cavalry and horse artillery under the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. His involvement in the battle is most famously remembered for the loss of his leg as he was riding alongside the Duke. Upon receiving grapeshot to his right knee, he supposedly told Wellington: 'By God Sir, I've lost my leg' to which Wellington is said to have replied 'By God Sir, so you have.' The limb was amputated and buried beneath an elaborate memorial in the village of Waterloo. In recognition of his services he was created a Marquess in 1815 and received the Order of the Garter in 1818. In Wellington's administration he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, however his relationship with the Duke became strained and he was recalled by the end of the year, only to be reappointed by Lord Grey in 1830. He was made Field-Marshal on 9 November 1849. Following his death at the age of 86 he was buried at Lichfield Cathedral.

The Marquess inherited a large collection of silver including a pair of Parker and Wakelin candelabra of 1770 and four soup tureens and eight dozen dinner plates by Butty and Dumee of 1769 and 1770. He later commissioned an extraordinary and much admired set of four spirally twisted candelabra from the later partnership of John Wakelin and William Taylor in 1792, one pair of which was sold from the Giorgio Marsan and Umberta Nasi Collection, Christie's, London, 12 December 2007, lot 38; the second pair in The Exceptional Sale, 4 July 2013, lot 1. The Marquess would have altered the heraldic engraving on the present lot following his elevation to the rank of Marquess in 1815 and his installation as a Knight of the Garter in 1818.

Henry, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, by George Romney (1734-1802). © National Trust Photographic Library / Bridgeman Images