He was educated at home, and after some years as assistant in his father's bank, entered the Middle Temple on 16 October 1835, and was called to the bar on 2 November 1838.
[1] Paget died on 28 May 1898 at 28 The Boltons, West Brompton, London, leaving a widow and two daughters.
His papers adversely criticizing Thomas Babington Macaulay's views of Marlborough, the massacre of Glencoe, the highlands of Scotland, Claverhouse, and William Penn were reprinted in 1861 with the title of The New Examen.
Other articles, entitled "Vindication", and dealing with Nelson, Lady Hamilton, the Wigtown martyrs, and Lord Byron; "Judicial Puzzles", dealing with Elizabeth Canning, the Campden Wonder, the Annesley case, Eliza Fenning, and Spencer Cowper's case; and "Essays on Art", dealing with the elements of drawing, Rubens and Ruskin, George Cruikshank and John Leech, were included in a volume and called Paradoxes and Puzzles: Historical, Judicial, and Literary, which appeared in 1874.
[1] On 1 March 1839, Paget married Elizabeth, daughter of William Rathbone V of Greenbank House, Liverpool.