Francis Paget (20 March 18512 August 1911) was an English

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, author and the 33rd

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Life

He was the second son of the noted surgeon

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, and brother of Luke (sometime Bishop of Stepney and of Chester). Francis Paget Vanity Fair 1894-11-22

He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, then at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained

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he became preacher at

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in 1882 and

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of Bromsgrove in 1885. An eminent scholar, he was subsequently Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at University of Oxford, the University of Oxford and Dean (education), Dean at Christ Church, Oxford, his old college. After the death of William Stubbs in April 1901, Paget was recommended to succeed him as Bishop of Oxford. He was elected bishop the following month, and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in St Paul's Cathedral 29 June 1901. A couple of days later he was received by Edward VII and invested as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, an office held by the Bishop of Oxford between 1837 and 1937. Paget served as bishop until his death in 1911.Death of the Bishop of Oxford, ''The Times'', Thursday, August 03, 1911; pg. 8; Issue 39654; col E Paget's son Bernard Paget, Bernard was a General in the Army, and another son, Edward Paget (bishop), Edward, was the first Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa. His daughter Edith married the priest and hymnwriter John Macleod Campbell Crum.

Selected works

*1887: ''Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Dis-belief'' *1891
''The Spirit of Discipline''
*1895: ''Studies in the Christian Character'' *1899
''An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical policy''
*1900: ''The Redemption of War''

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