| Authorised form of name | Paget; Sir; George Edward (1809 - 1892) |
| Dates | 1809 - 1892 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 22 December 1809 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Date of death | 16 January 1892 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Charterhouse; Caius College, Cambridge. BA (1831), MB (1833), MD (1839, Cambridge, and Dublin); DCL (Oxford and Durham); LLD (Edinb)
Career:
Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; Physician, Addenbrookes' Hospital, Cambridge (1841-1884); President, General Medical Council (1864-1869); Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge (1872-1892); had a large practice in Cambridge; died of influenza
Honours:
KCB 1885
Memberships:
FRCP (1839)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/06/1873 |
| Relationships | Seventh of seventeen children of Samuel Paget of Great Yarmouth; brother of Sir James Paget (FRS 1851); father-in-law of Hans Gadow (FRS 1892), of Charles Roy (FRS 1884) and of J J Thomson (FRS 1884); grandfather of George Paget Thomson (FRS 1930) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1891-1892 vol 50 pp xiii signed by G M H
References:
Gudrun Richardson, 'A Norfolk Network within the Royal Society' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 27-39, plate |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/80471696 |
| Code | NA5705 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1873/12 | Paget, Sir George Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/5/1222 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 30 January 1892 |
| MC/9/578 | Letter from Dr [George Edward] Paget, Cambridge, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 14 June 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |