page_title: 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)
section_title: Formation
hierarchical_section_title: 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) / History / Formation
caption_attribution_description: Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, by William Salter (died 1875). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
context_page_description: The 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 38th Regiment of Foot to form the South Staffordshire Regiment in 1881. Its lineage is continued today by the 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment.
context_section_description: The regiment was raised by Henry, Lord Paget as the 80th Regiment of Foot, in response to the threat posed by the French Revolution, on 9 December 1793. The regiment was largely recruited from the Staffordshire Militia and comprised men living on the estates of Paget's father, The Earl of Uxbridge.
caption: Henry, Lord Paget, founder of the regiment
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