Pauline Payne Whitney

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Pauline Payne Whitney (born March 21, 1874 – November 22, 1916), was an American heiress and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

She was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Flora Payne and businessman and statesman William C. Whitney. In 1895 Pauline Whitney married British-born Almeric Hugh Paget (1861-1949), who after her death was created Baron Queenborough. With him she had two daughters, Olive and Dorothy. They moved to England in 1901 where he was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom as the Unionist party candidate for Cambridge serving from 1910 to 1917.

Pauline Whitney-Paget had been in poor health for years and died in 1916 at the age of forty-two.