George Edward Paget

Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, FRS (22 December 1809 – 16 January 1892) was an English physician and academic.

The seventh son of Samuel Paget and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Tolver, he was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in October 1827, and graduated in 1831 as eighth wrangler.

In 1863 he was chosen representative of the university on the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, of which he was elected president in 1869, and re-elected in 1874.

On 19 December 1885 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in 1887 he was asked to represent Cambridge university in parliament, but declined on the grounds of ill-health.

In The Lancet for 11 and 18 April 1868 he published "Lecture on Gastric Epilepsy", and on 4 July 1885 "Case of Remarkable Risings and Fallings of the Bodily Temperature".

The letter to Ward served him as an argument for the genuineness of Gulielmus Harvey de Musculis, No.

[1] Clara Maud Paget (1857–1949), the eldest of Sir George's daughters who survived childhood, married the German ornithologist Hans Friedrich Gadow.