Thomas Tertius Paget JP, DL (27 December 1807 – 16 October 1892) was an English banker and Liberal Party politician. Paget was the eldest son of the banker and Whig politician Thomas Paget (1778–1862) and his wife Anne Pares. He was a partner in Leicester Bank and became a J. P. and a Deputy Lieutenant for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

and

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in 1869. Paget was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern Division of Leicestershire at a by-election in November 1867, filling the vacancy caused by the death of the

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Charles William Packe Charles William Packe (23 September 1792 – 27 October 1867) was a Great Britain, British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Family Packe was the oldest son of Charles James Packe and Penelope Dugdale, daughter of Richard ...

. However, he was defeated at the 1868 general election, and was unsuccessful both at a further by-election in 1870 and at the 1874 general election. He finally regained the seat, after a twelve-year absence from the House of Commons, at the 1880 general election, and when the constituency was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, he was elected at the 1885 general election for the new Harborough Division of Leicestershire. He retired from Parliament at the 1886 general election. Paget died at the age of 84, having married Katharine Geraldine MacCausland, daughter of Marcus MacCausland of Dreenagh,

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, in 1850.

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* 1807 births 1892 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 Deputy Lieutenants of Leicestershire High Sheriffs of Leicestershire {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub