Charles Paget ( Royal Navy officer ) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget GCH Kt ( 7 October 1778 – 27 January 1839 ) was a British sailor who also became a liberal politician and Member of Parliament . Naval career . Vice - Admiral Sir Charles Paget ( 1778 – 1839 ) was the son of Henry Bayly Paget , 1st Earl of Uxbridge , and Jane Champagné , and was brother to the second earl who became the first Marquess of Anglesey , famous for losing his leg at the Battle of Waterloo while commanding the cavalry . Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1790 , and by 1797 he was captain of HMS " Martin " , a sloop of war serving at the Battle of Camperdown . In 1798 he became post - captain of HMS " Brilliant " , a small frigate in which he captured " le Dragon " of 11 guns , and the " St Jago " , a Spanish privateer of 10 guns . Captain Paget ' s next appointment was to HMS " Hydra " , a frigate of 38 guns , in which he proceeded to the Mediterranean where he remained about twelve months . On 6 April 1803 he commissioned HMS " Endymion " , a frigate of the largest class , and in the course of the ensuing summer he captured " la Bacchante " , a French corvette of 18 guns , " l ' Adour " , a store ship pierced for 20 guns , and " le General " , a Morcau schooner privateer of 16 guns . He subsequently intercepted several richly laden Spanish merchantmen coming from South America , and he also captured " lu Colombe " , a French corvette of 10 guns off Ushant . In 1800 he removed into HMS " Egyptienne " . Towards the close of the long French war , Captain Paget , while cruising in the Endymion on the coast of Spain , descried a French ship of the line in imminent danger , embayed among rocks upon a lee shore , bowsprit and foremast gone , and riding by a stream cable , her only remaining one . Though it was blowing a gale , Paget bore down to the assistance of his enemy , dropped his sheet anchor on the Frenchman ' s bow , buoyed the cable , and veered it athwart his hawse . This the disabled ship succeeded in getting in , and thus seven hundred lives were rescued from destruction . After performing this chivalrous action , the Endymion , being herself in great peril , hauled to the wind , let go her bower anchor , club - hauled and stood off shore on the other tack . He was appointed to HMS " Superb " , another third rate belonging to the Channel Fleet , and during a cruise in the bay of Biscay he took several prizes . In 1814 he was employed on the coast of North America under the orders of Sir Alexander Cochrane by whom he was entrusted with the command of a squadron stationed off New London and took part in an attack upon Wareham , Massachusetts during the War of 1812 . Captain Paget was appointed to the command of HMY " Prince Regent " on 1 January 1819 and afterwards to the " Royal George " . He attended King George IV , and before his accession he nominated Charles as a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order and a Knight Bachelor at Brighton on 19 October 1819 . In January 1822 , Sir Charles succeeded his brother Lieut Gen Sir Edward Paget as a Groom of the Bedchamber , and he continued to hold that appointment during the whole reign of King William IV . He was made a commodore on board the " Royal George " on 26 July 1822 and was advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral on 9 April 1823 . In March 1828 he was appointed Commander in chief on the coast of Ireland . He attained the rank of Vice Admiral on 10 January 1837 and succeeded Vice Admiral Sir Peter Halkett in the command of the North America and West Indies Squadron using HMS " Cornwallis " as his flagship . Sir Charles Paget died onboard HMS " Tartarus " , whilst she was on her way from Port Royal to Bermuda . His death ensued after a violent attack of yellow fever during which for three days his death was hourly expected . Of his staff of twenty , six had died including Dr Scott the surgeon . Feeling better , but weak , and strangely free from rheumatic pain on 19 January he embarked on board the " Tartarus " , for the purpose of going to the Bermudas . He was off those islands for three days , but being unable to reach them was obliged to go back to St Thomas ' s . Parliament . He was Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of UK Parliament constituency from 1804 to 1806 , then succeeded his elder brother Edward Paget as MP for Caernarvon Boroughs from 1806 to 1826 , and was its MP again from 1831 to 1835 . According to Hansard ' s records , Paget made no contributions to debates in parliament . Family . He was buried in St Bartholomew ' s Church in Rogate in West Sussex . In the same place is buried his daughter Fredericka Georgina Augusta who died at Fair Oak , Rogate on 12 September 1853 aged 13 years . His 15 - year - old son Horatio Henry Paget died as a midshipman on board HMS " Talbot " on 28 April 1828 . His son Lieutenant Brownlow Henry Paget died on board HMS " Dublin " on 18 February 1843 , aged 24 years . His widow died at Fair Oak on 17 August 1843 , aged 56 years .