Four diaries and one sketchbook, including some printed items.
Contributors include:
Samuel Paget, banker, shipowner and brewer, of Great Yarmouth, married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tolver of Chester. Their children included Arthur Coyte Paget (1808-1833); Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge, 1872-1892; Sir James Paget (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1839-1884, and Vice-Chancellor of London University, 1884-1895; and Alfred Tolver Paget (1818-1862), Master of Shrewsbury School, 1840-1855, and Rector of Kirstead, Norfolk, with Langhale, Suffolk, 1856-1862. There was also a daughter, Katharine.
Paget Family: Diaries
This material is held atCambridge University Library
- Reference
- GB 12 MS Add.8568
- Dates of Creation
- 1830-1854
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 1 archive box(es) 1 box
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Presented by Mrs Paul Paget, 1986.
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