Background
Paget was born in Loughborough.
Paget was born in Loughborough.
He was educated at the Unitarian Manchester College at York, and then read medicine.
He travelled extensively in Europe. He lived on his wife"s estate in Transylvania, developing the farming there with an "improved" breed of cow, and campaigning for improvements to agriculture. His diary, in six volumes, is in Hungary"s National Museum.
Volumes 1-5 contain observations on natural history around Europe.
Volume 6 records Hungary"s 1849 war of independence, in which Paget took part. He is known for his 1839 book Hungary and Transylvania.
He died in Ghiriş (then called Gyeres) and is buried in the Hajongard Cemetery in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.