Background
The son of Major Guy Paget, he studied law at Cambridge university, and stood for election as a Labour party candidate for Northampton in 1935, but did not win.
The son of Major Guy Paget, he studied law at Cambridge university, and stood for election as a Labour party candidate for Northampton in 1935, but did not win.
During World World War II he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1940-1943). After the war he was advocate for Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in his trial for war crimes. He later wrote Manstein: His Campaigns and His Trial (1957).
He was repeatedly reelected until 1974, when the constituency was abolished.
During his tenure as an Member of Parliament he was an independent voice, playing a major role in the campaign to abolish capital punishment. He became Secretary of the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement in 1954.
Paget was a Queen"s Counsel. On 2 January 1975, he was created a life peer as Baron Paget of Northampton, of Lubenham in the County of Leicestershire.
They occupied Lubenham Lodge 2 miles west of Market Harborough from 1964.
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