Cecil Paget

Lt.-Col. Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd Baronet CMG DSO (19 October 1874 – 9 December 1936),[1] was an English locomotive engineer and railway administrator.

The role, which would now be called chief operating officer, was expanded from that of the previous 'superintendent of the line' and put him in charge of the daily running of the locomotive department, which was formerly a responsibility of his erstwhile boss, Deeley.

[7] A point of agreement with Deeley was the need for larger locomotives to haul heavier trains, but this policy failed to get past the company's board because of the capital expenditure required (particularly on replacing weak under-bridges).

[1] In 1906, Paget married Lady Alexandra Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the 9th Duke of Leeds, at St. Andrew's Church, Wells Street, Westminster.

She testified that their marriage was an unhappy one, and that when he was on leave in England in 1917, he informed her that he had a mistress, a situation he expected her to accept "in a generous spirit".

When Lady Alexandra sent him a letter requesting a formal separation, Sir Cecil replied that it was better to get divorced, and wrote, "If you want evidence against me, you can inquire of the manager of the Sackville Hotel, Bexhill-on-Sea."

A witness testified that Sir Cecil and a woman who claimed to be Lady Paget had spent the night together at the Sackville Hotel in the summer of 1924.

[11] In 1927, Sir Cecil, 51, married the 34-year-old Florence Caroline, daughter of carpenter James Butt of Hackney, in a registrar's office in London.