Paget Baronets
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The Paget Baronetcy, of Harewood Place in the County of Middlesex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 19 August 1871 for the surgeon and pathologist James Paget. The Right Reverend Francis Paget
Francis Paget
The Right Reverend Francis Paget was the 33rd Bishop of Oxford from 1901 until his death. He was the second son of the noted surgeon Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet, and brother of Luke Paget, Bishop of Chester. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School,Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford...
, second son of the first Baronet, was Bishop of Oxford
Bishop of Oxford
The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford...
. His son Sir Bernard Paget
Bernard Paget
General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget GCB, DSO, MC was a British officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars.-Military career:...
was a General in the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
. The latter was the father of the fourth Baronet. Stephen Paget
Stephen Paget
Stephen Paget was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget. Stephen Paget has been long credited with proposing the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, even though in his paper “The Distribution Of Secondary Growths In Cancer Of The Breast”, The...
, another son of the first Baronet, was also a noted surgeon.
The Paget Baronetcy, of Cranmore Hall in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 March 1886 for the Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
politician Richard Paget
Sir Richard Paget, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895....
. The second Baronet was married to Lady Muriel Paget, and had issue, including the third Baronet. He was also a great-grandfather of the actress Anna Chancellor
Anna Chancellor
-Family:Chancellor was born in Richmond, London, England, the daughter of the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe and John Paget Chancellor. Through her mother's mother, Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, Chancellor is the great-granddaughter of The Hon. Raymond Aquith and the great-great-granddaughter of Prime...
through his daughter Sylvia, Lady Chancellor (wife of Christopher Chancellor
Christopher Chancellor
Sir Christopher Chancellor , a British journalist and administrator, was general manager of the news agency Reuters from 1944 to 1959...
) and her elder son John.
The Paget Baronetcy, of Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus....
in the County of Nottingham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 September 1897 Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway
Midland Railway
The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
. The second Baronet was a locomotive engineer and railway administrator. The title became extinct on his death in 1936.
Paget Baronets, of Harewood Place (1871)
- Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet (1814–1899)
- Sir John Rahere Paget, 2nd Baronet (1848–1938)
- Sir James Francis Paget, 3rd Baronet (1890–1972)
- Sir Julian Tolver Paget, 4th Baronet CVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
(b. 11 July 1921). Paget is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the British ArmyBritish ArmyThe British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
and author. He wrote The Yeoman of the Guard (1984), Second to none: the Coldstream Guards, 1650-2000 (2000), and a number of other military histories. He served in the Coldstream GuardsColdstream GuardsHer Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards , is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division....
from 1940 to 1968 and was a Gentleman UsherGentleman UsherGentleman Usher is a title for some officers of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. See List of Gentlemen Ushers for a list of office-holders.-Historical:...
to Queen Elizabeth IIElizabeth II of the United KingdomElizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
from 1971 to 1991, and has been an Extra Gentleman Usher since 1991. Paget succeeded in the baronetcy in 1972 and was made a CVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
in 1984.
Paget Baronets, of Cranmore Hall (1886)
- Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st BaronetSir Richard Paget, 1st BaronetSir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895....
(1832–1908) - Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, 2nd Baronet (1869–1955)
- Sir John Starr Paget, 3rd Baronet (1914–1992)
- Sir Richard Herbert Paget, 4th Baronet (b. 1967)
Paget Baronets, of Sutton Bonington (1897)
- Sir (George) Ernest Paget, 1st Baronet (1841–1923)
- Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd BaronetCecil PagetSir Cecil Walter Paget CMG, DSO , was a British locomotive engineer and railway administrator.Cecil Paget was the son of Sir George Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway Company 1890-1911. He was born at Sutton Bonington, educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then joined...
(1874–1936)