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 Fanny, daughter of William Chester, rector of Denton, Norfolk.

Paget's most important work is a privately printed volume entitled ‘Some Records of the Ashtead Estate and of its Howard Possessors: with Notices of Elford, Castle Rising, Levens, and Charlton,’ 4to, Lichfield, 1873, a valuable but uncritical compilation from family papers and other private sources.

His views on church and social reforms found expression in many pleasantly written tales, among which may be mentioned: 1. ‘Caleb Kniveton, the Incendiary,’ 12mo, Oxford, 1833. 2. ‘St. Antholin's, or Old Churches and New,’ 8vo, London, 1841; a protest against building churches after the ‘cheap and nasty’ method. 3. ‘Milford Malvoisin, or Pews and Pewholders,’ 8vo, London, 1842. 4. ‘The Warden of Berkingholt, or Rich and Poor,’ 12mo, Oxford, 1843. 5. ‘The Owlet of Owlstone Edge,’ 8vo, London, 1856. 6. ‘The Curate of Cumberworth and the Vicar of Roost,’ 8vo, London, 1859. 7. ‘Lucretia, or the Heroine of the Nineteenth Century,’ 8vo, London, 1868; a satire on the sensational novel. 8. ‘The Pageant,’ and many others. To vols. ix., xvi., and xviii. of ‘The Englishman's Library,’ 12mo, 1840, &c., he contributed ‘Tales of the Village;’ while to ‘The Juvenile Englishman's Library,’ 12mo, 1845, &c., of which he was for some time editor, he furnished ‘Tales of the Village Children,’ two series; ‘The Hope of the Katzekopfs,’ a fairy tale, issued separately under the pseudonym of ‘William Churne of Staffordshire,’ 12mo, Rugeley, 1844 (on which an extravaganza in verse, called ‘Eigenwillig, or the Self-willed,’ was founded, 8vo, London, 1870), and ‘Luke Sharp.’ While examining the manuscripts at Levens Hall, Westmoreland, he came across some letters from Richard Graham (1679–1697), youngest son of Colonel James Graham (1649–1730) [q. v.], who died prematurely while keeping terms at University College, Oxford, and his tutor, Hugh Todd. These formed the materials of a volume which he called ‘A Student Penitent of 1695,’ 8vo, London, 1875. He also published several volumes of sermons, prayers, and religious treatises. His last work, entitled ‘Homeward Bound,’ 8vo, London, 1876, attracted some attention. In 1840 he edited Bishop Patrick's ‘Discourse concerning Prayer’ and ‘Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting,’ to rank with the series of reprints from the writings of English bishops issued by John Henry Newman.

[Guardian, 16 Aug. 1882, p. 1124; Halkett and Laing's Dict. of Anon. and Pseud. Lit.] 

PAGET, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (1818–1880), general, sixth son (third by the second marriage) of Henry William Paget, first marquis of Anglesey [q. v.], born on 16 March 1818, was educated at Westminster School, and on 25 July 1834 was appointed cornet and sub-lieutenant in the 1st lifeguards, in which he became lieutenant on 1 Dec. 1837. On 17 Aug. 1840 he purchased an unattached company, and exchanged to a troop in the 4th light dragoons (now hussars), and was promoted major in that regiment on 30 Jan. 1846, and lieutenant-colonel on 29 Dec. the same year. Becoming a brevet colonel on 20 June 1854, he went out in command of the 4th light dragoons to the East, landed with it in the Crimea, and at the Alma and Balaklava was next senior officer of the light cavalry brigade to Lord Cardigan [see ]. In the famous charge of the ‘six hundred,’ Paget's regiment at first formed the third line, and he appears to have done his utmost to fulfil Lord Cardigan's desire that he should give him ‘his best support.’ With the remnants of his own regiment and the 11th hussars (from the second line of the brigade), which he held together after the first line had melted away at the guns, he was enabled to check the Russian pursuit, and was one of the last to leave the Valley of Death. He commanded the remains of the light brigade at Inkerman, and immediately afterwards he went home with a view to retirement from the service, an arrangement he had contemplated at the time of his marriage before the outbreak of the war. Although his bravery was never questioned, his return at this critical period exposed him to much invidious comment in the newspapers, which probably induced him to reconsider his plans.

Paget went back to the Crimea on 23 Feb. 1855, was reappointed to the command of the light brigade, and was in temporary command of the cavalry division during the absence of Sir James Yorke Scarlett [q. v.], Lord Lucan's successor. Together with his wife, who accompanied him to the Crimea, Paget was one of the small group of personal friends who gathered round Lord Raglan's deathbed. Paget commanded the light cavalry brigade at Eupatoria and in the operations under General d'Allonville, and until a month before the evacuation of the Crimea (C.B., medal and clasps, Legion of Honour, third class of the Medjidié, and Sardinian and Turkish medals). He became a major-general on 11 Nov. 1861, commanded the cavalry at Aldershot in 1860–2, and the Sirhind division of the Bengal army from 1862 to