MEN OF THE DAY. No. 161.

GENERAL LORD GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK PAGET, K.C.B.

THE youngest son of the famous Lord Anglesey, he was born nine-and-fifty years ago, and at sixteen was made a cornet of Dragoons. He proved himself a smart soldier, commanded the 4th Light Dragoons at the Battle of the Alma, and was in the memorable Balaklava Charge. In this campaign he became a Brigadier-General, and having come home he commanded the Cavalry at Aldershot, and subsequently a division in India, which latter command he held till he was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry, a post for which no man could be better fitted. It was expected, when a vacancy lately occurred in the post of Gold Stick-in-Waiting, that he would have been appointed, but it was held that a peer with qualifying service was preferable for that courtly office. His turn may, however, yet come to figure in State ceremonial, for he is a gallant soldier, a smart man, a good fellow, a giver of excellent dinners, very popular, and Lord Sydney's brother-in-law.