Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough
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The Lord Queenborough GBE |
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| Member of Parliament for Cambridge |
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In office January 1910 – 1917 |
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| Preceded by | Stanley Buckmaster |
| Succeeded by | Sir Eric Geddes |
| Majority | 587 |
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| Born |
14 March 1861 London, England |
| Died | 22 September 1949 (aged 88) Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) |
Pauline Payne Whitney (m. 1892; her death 1916) Edith Starr Miller (m. 1921; div. 1932) |
| Children | 5 daughters |
Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough GBE (14 March 1861 – 22 September 1949) was born into a noble family, but left school with only £5 to his name. He became a cowboy, self-made industrialist, award-winning yachtsman, British peer and Conservative Party politician, founder of the Military Massage Service and the Cambridgeshire Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment, and treasurer of the League of Nations Union.
Born in London on 14 March 1861, Paget was the sixth and youngest son of Lord Alfred Paget (the fifth son of the Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey) and Cecilia Wyndham. His grandfather had commanded the British cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Educated at Harrow, he was later made a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Paget briefly worked for the Midland Railway, Derbyshire before emigrating to the United States in 1881. He established a cattle ranch at Le Mars, Iowa, where he became acquainted with Theodore Roosevelt. Later he relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was a real estate agent. Paget finally moved to New York City, where his brother Arthur introduced him to society. He lived in what is now Lubin House, Syracuse University's alumni centre.
He joined Henry Melville Whitney in establishing the Dominion Coal Company Ltd. in 1893 and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd. in 1901 at Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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