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SIR GEORGE EDWARD PAGET was born at Yarmouth in 1809. He 

 was the seventh of seventeen children, of whom Sir James Paget, 

 Bart., F.R.S., is the only survivor. His early education was at the 

 Charterhouse. He was admitted at Caius College, Cambridge, in 

 1827, and graduated in Arts as Eighth Wrangler in 1831. He was- 

 elected Fellow of his college in 1832, graduated as M.B. in 1833 and 

 as M.D. in 1839, was elected physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in 

 1841, and held the office for forty-three years, retiring in 1884, when 

 a marble bust of him was placed in the hospital, as a memorial of his- 

 long and valued services. He represented the University of Cam- 

 bridge on the General Medical Council from 1864 to 1869, and was 

 then chosen President of the Council, from which post he retired in 

 1874. In 1872 he was appointed Regius Professor of Physic by the 

 Crown, and held the office till his death. He became Fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 1873, and was made K.C.B. in 1885. He became 

 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1839, was made Hon. M.D. 

 Dublin 1867, Hon. D.C.L. Durham 1870, Hon. LL.D. Edinburgh 

 1871, Hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1872, and was President of the Meeting of 

 the British Medical Association at Cambridge in 1864. His writings 

 were " A Notice of an Unpublished Manuscript of Harvey " in 1850 ; 

 the " Address as President of the Medical Association " in 1864 ; the 

 " Harveian Oration" in 1866; and various papers in the medical 

 journals. He married in 1851, and left several children. He died 

 in January, 1892. He was an excellent physician, and enjoyed large 

 practice in and around Cambridge for many years. 



He was a man of great ability and firm character, remarkably quick, 

 yet scrupulously accurate, truthful and very cautious, attentive to- 

 detail, wise in judgment, and earnest in purpose. By his wisdom, 

 watchfulness, and zeal he largely promoted the success of the Cam- 

 bridge Medical School ; and by his love for his University and his 

 rectitude of character he won the confidence of the men of Cambridge, 

 who all regarded him with respect and affection, and rejoiced in the 

 honour done him by the Queen and by various universities. These 

 qualities and his genial, kind manner gave him a large circle of warm 

 friends. Added to all this, his brightness and cheerfulness, his great 

 stores of accurate information and his inexhaustible f and of anecdotes 

 and stories, the relation of which in his precise and humorous style 

 was most telling, and his fondness of social life made him a delightful 

 companion. He was a spare, brisk, active man, enjoyed good health, 

 and continued conscientiously the duties of his professorship till, 

 having entered his eighty-third year, he succumbed to the influenza in 

 January last. G M H 



SIR JAMES CAIRO was the son of James Caird, of Stranraer. He 

 was born in 1816, educated at Edinburgh High School and University, 



