Luke Paget

[3] Paget was born in 1853 [4] and educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career.

He was ordained on 16 June 1877 (Trinity Sunday) and went as assistant curate to St Andrew's Wells Street in London's West End,[5] serving under Benjamin Webb, the co-founder of the Cambridge Camden Society which had campaigned for the building of the church which had opened in 1847.

In 1879 Paget went to the Leeds Clergy School as vice principal but returned to London's East End in 1881.

The happiest period of this career, he stated, was at this East End mission to the poor.

St Andrew's Wells Street was physically moved to Kingsbury in North West London and opened in 1934.