Reginald Paget

Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux Paget (also Du Voeux Paget), Baron Paget of Northampton , (born September 2, 1908 in Brixworth Hall, Brixworth , Northamptonshire , † January 2, 1990 in Kensington (London) ) was an English lawyer and politician.

Life

Paget, son of Major Thomas Guy Frederick Paget (1886-1952), attended Eton College and Trinity College at Cambridge University , where he studied law and economics, and was from 1934 barister and from 1947 King's Counsel. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and released after being wounded.

He became known as a lawyer for his defense of the German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in Hamburg in 1949, although he was unable to avert his conviction for war crimes by a British military tribunal. Paget tried to downplay the murder of the Einsatzgruppen during the trial, and also played down the fate of Poland during its occupation. Paget wrote a book about this process: "Manstein: His Campaign and his Trial" (1951). Also in the case of Derek Bentley , a mentally disadvantaged 19-year-old who was sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer committed by an accomplice (the accomplice received a prison sentence as a minor), he was very committed and tried in vain to execute the 1953 took place to avert. With Sydney Silverman, Paget wrote the book "Hanged and Innocent?" (1953) about the case. He was Privy Counselor (PC) and Queen's Counsel (QC).

From 1945 to 1974 Paget also sat as a Labor MP for Northampton in the British House of Commons, after he had tried unsuccessfully in 1935 to conquer Northampton for Labor. There he earned a reputation for being the slowest speaker. In the 1960s, however, he was also considered a master in the art of rhetorically packaged insults in the British Parliament. In the context of a parliamentary debate in the context of the Suez crisis of September 14, 1956 , he commented on Prime Minister Anthony Eden : There is no pretense or hiding with the Prime Minister: he is the original Banana man : yellow on the outside and a lighter one yellow inside (There is no disguise or camouflage about the Prime Minister. He is the original Banana man, yellow outside and a softer yellow inside). In the Profumo affair in 1963 he first defended John Profumo , who had to resign because of an affair with Christine Keeler , who was apostrophized as a call girl , or because he had lied to Parliament on this matter, and then attacked Quintin Hogg (Lord Hailsham of Marylebone) when he sharply attacked his ministerial colleague and fellow party member (as well as ex-boyfriend) John Profumo in a BBC television interview and in parliament and described himself as the “conscience” of the Conservative Party. Paget felt this was stepping on a friend who was lying on the ground and said, referring to Hailham's excess weight: “When indulgence has reduced a man to the guise of Lord Hailsham, there is nothing more to sexual abstinence than a sense of that Ridiculous."

From 1954 he was Honorary Secretary of the UK Council of the European Movement.

In 1974 he was appointed as Baron Paget of Northampton , of Lubenham in the County of Leicestershire , for Life Peer appointed. He lived at Lubenham Lodge near Market Harborough and was married to Sybil Gibbons since 1931.

literature

Anthony Howard: Paget, Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux, Baron Paget of Northampton (1908–1990) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004 ( online edition ).
Obituary in The Times , Jan. 4, 1990, p. 14.
Colin Holmes: Paget. In: AT Lane: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publ., 1995.

Fonts

Manstein: His Campaigns and his Trial . Foreword Lord Hankey , Collins, London 1951.
- German translation: Manstein: His campaigns and his process . Translation by Ursula Michaelsen, Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1952.
with S. Silverman: Hanged and Innocent? (An examination of the question of the guilt of Walter Graham Rowland, Derek Bentley and Timothy John Evans), London, Victor Gollancz 1953.
The human journey . London: Davis-Poynter 1979.

Web links

Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 21, 2015.
Biography, with marriage announcement in The Times, August 4, 1931, and entry in the Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders

Remarks

↑ date of birth e.g. B. World Biography , Institute for Research in Biography, New York City 1948 and Charles Kidd, David Williamson Debrett's peerage and baronetage 1985
↑ Biography of Thomas Guy Frederick Paget with obituary from The Times . He was a Member of Parliament for the Tories, Landowners, Justice of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, High Sheriff of Leicestershire 1947/48 and local historian.
↑ Entry Paget in: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders
^ Donald M. McKale: Nazis after Hitler: how perpetrators of the Holocaust cheated justice and truth . Lanham, Md .: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4422-1316-6 p. 261
↑ In 1998 Bentley was acquitted posthumously.
↑ Both are honorary degrees for British lawyers. A PC is entitled to the title "The Right Honorable".
↑ [1]
^ Charles Hussey The fine art of insult , The New York Times, January 5, 1964
↑ Tony Augarde, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, September 14, 1956 . Sometimes incorrectly quoted as saying that Eden is like an overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy inside, e.g. B. Charles Hussey, The fine art of insult, New York Times, January 5, 1964.
↑ Paget's parliamentary speech in the Profumo affair, June 17, 1963. In the original: “When self indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous.” Hansard, Minutes of parliamentary speeches , June 17, 1963 . The quote is considered a prime example of skillful political insult in Britain. For example, it was included in the English collections of political jokes The fine art of political wit by Leon A. Harris (Dutton 1964) and Cutting Edge by Nick Sheridan (Dent 1984).

personal data
SURNAME	Paget, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paget, Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux, Baron Paget of Northampton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brixworth Hall, Brixworth , Northamptonshire
DATE OF DEATH	2nd January 1990
Place of death	Kensington (London)

[1] te of birth e.g. B. World Biography , Institute for Research in Biography, New York City 1948 and Charles Kidd, David Williamson Debrett's peerage and baronetage 1985

[2] Biography of Thomas Guy Frederick Paget with obituary from The Times . He was a Member of Parliament for the Tories, Landowners, Justice of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, High Sheriff of Leicestershire 1947/48 and local historian.

[3] Entry Paget in: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders

[4] Donald M. McKale: Nazis after Hitler: how perpetrators of the Holocaust cheated justice and truth . Lanham, Md .: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4422-1316-6 p. 261

[5] In 1998 Bentley was acquitted posthumously.

[6] Both are honorary degrees for British lawyers. A PC is entitled to the title "The Right Honorable".

[7] [1]

[8] Charles Hussey The fine art of insult , The New York Times, January 5, 1964

[9] Tony Augarde, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, September 14, 1956 . Sometimes incorrectly quoted as saying that Eden is like an overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy inside, e.g. B. Charles Hussey, The fine art of insult, New York Times, January 5, 1964.

[10] Paget's parliamentary speech in the Profumo affair, June 17, 1963. In the original: “When self indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous.” Hansard, Minutes of parliamentary speeches , June 17, 1963 . The quote is considered a prime example of skillful political insult in Britain. For example, it was included in the English collections of political jokes The fine art of political wit by Leon A. Harris (Dutton 1964) and Cutting Edge by Nick Sheridan (Dent 1984).