Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Baronet (14 March 1832 – 3 February 1908) was a British

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politician who sat in the

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from 1865 to 1895. Paget was the son of John Moore Paget of

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and his wife Elizabeth Jane Doveton. He attended the

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and was a captain in the 66th Regiment and Honorary lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Prince Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry. He was a J.P. and deputy lieutenant for Somerset. In the 1865 general election, Paget was elected Conservative

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for East Somerset. However, at the 1868 general election, he was elected instead for Mid Somerset and held the seat until it was reorganised under the

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. He was then elected in the 1885 general election as MP for

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, which he held until the 1895 general election. Paget was made a Baronet in 1886, and sworn as a

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in 1895. Paget married Caroline Isabel Surtees in 1866. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Richard Paget. His daughter, Dorothy Mary Paget, married the Liberal politician

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. The scientist Brigid Balfour was one of his granddaughters.

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* 1832 births 1908 deaths Paget, Sir Richard, 1st Baronet Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 {{UK-baronet-stub