Paget

Paget, SIR GEORGE EDWARD, K.C.B., was born at Yarmouth in 1809, and educated at the Charterhouse and at Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1831, became Fellow of Cairns in 1832, M.D. in 1838, D.C.L. Oxford and Durham, LL.D. Edinburgh, and F.R.S. in 1855. In 1872 he became regius professor of Physic in Cambridge, in 1885 K.C.B., and died 30th January 1892. He may well be regarded as a public benefactor, as having taken the principal part in the great advance that has been made of late years in the education of medical practitioners.—His brother, SIR JAMES PAGET, Bart., was born at Yarmouth in 1814. He became member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1836, Hon. Fellow in 1843, member of the Council in 1865, president of the College in 1875, Bradshawe Lecturer in 1882. Serjeant-surgeon to the Queen, surgeon to the Prince of Wales, and consulting surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, he was created baronet in 1871, and in the same year LL.D. of the university of Edinburgh. Two standard works are Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853; 4th ed. 1876), and Clinical Lectures (1875). He was vice-chancellor of the university of London. He died on 30th December 1899.