Background
Paget was born in 1853 and educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career. He was the son of Sir James Paget and brother of Francis Paget.
Paget was born in 1853 and educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career. He was the son of Sir James Paget and brother of Francis Paget.
Christ Church; Shrewsbury School.
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. After an incumbency at Street Ives, Cambridgeshire and a brief period as the suffragan Bishop of Ipswich he was translated to be the Bishop of Stepney in 1909, a position he held until becoming Bishop of Chester in 1919.
This appointment was not without controversy as he was by then 66.
But he was to serve until 1932 when he was 79. Street Andrew"s Wells Street was physically moved to Kingsbury in North West London and opened in 1934.
Bishop Paget attended the opening and was said to have been moved by handling vessels he had used when he was a new priest. He asked to be buried in the graveyard adjacent to the church so that he could be near to his beloved Street Andrew"son