Paget joined the
Royal Navy in 1865. He saw action in the
Anglo-Egyptian War and then served in Eastern
Sudan. and went on to serve as naval
attaché in
Paris,
Petrograd and then
Washington, D.C. between 1896 and 1899. The
Endymion served on the China station until late May 1902, when she left for the United Kingdom. She took part in the
fleet review held at
Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the
coronation of King
Edward VII, and Paget paid her off at
Chatham on 4 September 1902. He went on to be commanding officer of the
battleship HMS Royal Sovereign in May 1903, commanding officer of the cruiser
HMS Charybdis in March 1904 and commanding officer of the cruiser
HMS Scylla in March 1905. After that he became Senior Officer,
Coast of Ireland Station in 1908 before retiring in 1911. He was made a
KCB in the
1911 Coronation Honours. With no opportunity to serve as an admiral during the first world war he gained a commission in the Royal Navy Reserve as a commander, at one point being in charge of an armed yacht to support patrol flotillas in the North Sea, he was promoted in the RNR and retired due to ill health in 1917. ==Family==