English aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, was BOTD in 1875. Born in Paris, he was the eldest son of the 4th Marquess of Anglesey, though rumours circulated throughout his life that his father was the French actor Benoît-Constant Coquelin. He returned to England to be educated, attending Eton College and was later privately tutored. He enlisted in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, presumably for the outfits and the all-male company. On the death of the 4th Marquess in 1898, he inheriting the family title and estate, making him one of the wealthiest men in Britain. Somewhat surprisingly, he married his cousin Lilian Chetwynd. Less surprisingly, their relationship was unconsummated, and they separated two years later. Paget lived lavishly, buying and wearing diamonds and furs, cross-dressing with abandon and throwing extravagant parties at his country homes. A keen thespian, he converted the chapel at his estate into a theatre, where he staged plays and comic sketches. Known as “The Dancing Marquess” for his “sinuous, sexy, snake-like” interpretative dances, he also cast himself in privately-staged productions of Shakespeare’s Henry V and Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband Convinced of his theatrical talents, he took his theatre company on tour around Britain and Europe for three years. By 1904, he had accumulated colossal debts and was declared bankrupt, necessitating the sale of his wardrobe and jewellery. He died in Monte Carlo in 1905, aged 29. The family title was inherited by his cousin, who destroyed Henry’s private papers and converted the estate theatre back into a chapel. He will be portrayed by Welsh actor Callum Scott Howells in the upcoming biopic Madfabulous.