Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough

Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (14 March 1861 – 22 September 1949) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.

He was a founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and treasurer of the League of Nations Union.

Following his return to England from the US, he was appointed rear-commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club (1905-1910); he subsequently served as vice-commodore (1911-1923; 1932-1935; 1946-1949) and commodore (1924-1931; 1936-1945).

Paget was named president of the Eastern Provincial Division of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1909.

[5] The corps established clinics in every hospital in the United Kingdom, with central direction from Paget's London townhouse at 39 Berkeley Square.

[5] In addition to the Massage Corps, following the outbreak of war Paget sponsored the formation of a Cambridgeshire Battalion formed of volunteers.

[6] The Battalion was initially posted within the UK, transferring to France in 1916; 970 members died during World War I including 190 on 1 July 1916, first day on the Somme.

[9] During the 1930s, Paget was a keen supporter of Francisco Franco[10] and Adolf Hitler,[11] extolling the Führer as late as 1939.

The Pagets were the parents of two daughters: In the middle of World War I, Pauline died at Esher, Surrey, after a three weeks' illness on 22 November 1916.

[17] Granddaughter of George H. Warren, one of the founders of the Metropolitan Opera,[18] Edith Miller had written Common Sense in the Kitchen[19] and Occult Theocrasy.

Almeric Hugh Paget, about 1911
Uniform of the Almeric Paget Military Massage Corps, 1916