Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (16 April 1823 – 11 July 1896) was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget

Arthur Paget (diplomat)

Sir Arthur Paget GCB, PC was a British diplomat and politician.-Family and early life:Arthur Paget was the third son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife Jane Chamagné daughter of Arthur Chamagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise in Ireland. He was a younger brother of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess...

 and Lady Augusta Fane, nephew of General Sir Edward Paget

Edward Paget

General Sir Edward Paget GCB was a British Army officer.-Career:Born the fourth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Edward Paget became a cornet in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1792...

 and grandson of The 1st Earl of Uxbridge

Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge

Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge , known as Sir Henry Bayly, 3rd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, until 1769 and as The Lord Paget between 1769 and 1784, was a British peer.-Background:...

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Paget was appointed a member of Queen Victoria's privy council

Privy council

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 in 1876 he was a career civil servant

Civil service

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 and diplomat

Diplomat

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 and British ambassador

Ambassador

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During his civil service career, Paget served in the Post Office

Post office

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 and the Audit Office. In the diplomatic service, he was posted to Denmark

Denmark

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, Germany

Germany

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, and Italy

Italy

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 where he held the office of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary between 1876 and 1883. Finally, in Austria

Austria

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, he held the office of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 1883 and 1893.

Paget married in 1860 Countess Walburga Ehrengarde Helena de Hohenthal

Walburga, Lady Paget

Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget was born in Berlin, Germany. She was a diarist, writer and an intimate friend of Queen Victoria. The daughter of Charles Frederic Anthony, Count von Hohenthal, Paget married Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget , British ambassador to Copenhagen in 1860 and later...

. The couple had three children:

1. William Frederick Augustus Paget (1861 – 1927),
2. Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget (1863 – 1944)
3. Ralph Spencer Paget (1864 – 1940).

His wife later achieved fame in her own right by publishing a series of memoirs of her life in the various embassies in which they lived.