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STEPHEN PAGET was born in Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London, in 1855, tne fourth and youngest son of Sir James Paget, who was well known as the leading scientific surgeon of the mid-Victorian period. The tide was turning in the fortunes of his father when Stephen was born, for Sir James was writing that if he can afford that brougham his wife shall walk fewer miles in the week than she has often walked in the day. Stephen received his preliminary education at St. Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School in the Regent's Park just at the top of Baker Street. The school had been established by his maternal grandfather, the Rev. Henry North, domestic chaplain to the Duke of Kent, and received most of the doctors' sons in the neighbourhood. From this school he proceeded to Shrewsbury, where he had a good training in the classics, and from there he passed to Christ Church, Oxford, where his brother Frank was a senior student, graduating in 1878 after gaining second class honours in “Greats.”
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Mr. Stephen Paget. Nature 117, 831 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117831a0
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