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Paget Family: Diaries

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8568

Scope and Contents

Four diaries and one sketchbook, including some printed items.

Contributors include:

Samuel Paget, banker, shipowner and brewer, of Great Yarmouth, married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tolver of Chester. Their children included Arthur Coyte Paget (1808-1833); Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge, 1872-1892; Sir James Paget (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1839-1884, and Vice-Chancellor of London University, 1884-1895; and Alfred Tolver Paget (1818-1862), Master of Shrewsbury School, 1840-1855, and Rector of Kirstead, Norfolk, with Langhale, Suffolk, 1856-1862. There was also a daughter, Katharine.

Dates

  • Creation: 1830-1854

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 archive box(es) (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Mrs Paul Paget, 1986.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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