Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Julian Tolver Paget, 4th Baronet, CVO (11 July 1921 – 25 September 2016) was a British army officer and military historian who was the author of many books.
He served in NW Europe during the Second World War, including in the battle for Normandy, in the Liberation of Brussels and in the attempt to reach the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem in September 1944.
His younger brother Lieutenant Tony Paget DSO served with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 43rd) and was killed during the Battle of the Reichswald in March 1945.
[citation needed] Paget joined a Public relations consultancy on leaving the army, and settled down to write more military history.
[citation needed] He had married in 1954, an American Diana Frances, daughter of Frederick Farmer, whom he met while working in the Pentagon.
He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir Henry Paget, 5th Baronet, a merchant banker with St James's Place, wealth management company.