Sir Richard Paget, 1st Baronet

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Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Baronet PC (14 March 1832 – 3 February 1908) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1865 to 1895, representing several constituencies in the South-Western county of Somerset: East Somerset from 1865 to 1868, Mid Somerset from 1868 to 1885, and Wells from 1885 to 1895.

He was made a Baronet in 1886, and sworn as a Privy Councillor in 1895.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Knatchbull and
Sir William Miles, Bt.		 Member of Parliament for East Somerset
with Ralph Neville Grenville
1865–1868		 Succeeded by
Ralph Shuttleworth Allen and
Richard Bright
Preceded by
(new constituency)		 Member of Parliament for Mid Somerset
with Ralph Neville Grenville, to 1878;
William Stephen Gore-Langton, 1878–1885;
John Wingfield-Digby, 1885
1868–1885		 Succeeded by
(constituency abolished)
Preceded by
newly re-established constituency		 Member of Parliament for Wells
1885–1895		 Succeeded by
Hylton Jolliffe
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
(new creation)		 Baronet
(of Cranmore, Somerset)
1868–1908		 Succeeded by
Richard Paget
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