Walter Paget
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| name = Walter Paget
| honorific-suffix =
| image = Walter Trueman Paget - Queensland Politician.png
| caption =
| constituency_AM1 = Mackay
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 11 May 1901
| term_end1 = 22 May 1915
| predecessor1 = James Chataway
| successor1 = William Forgan Smith
| alongside1 = David Dalrymple, Albert Fudge, Edward Swayne
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|2|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hagley, Worcestershire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1930|12|23|1854|2|7|df=y}}
| death_place = Mooloolah, Queensland, Australia
| restingplace = Mooloolah Cemetery
| birthname = Walter Trueman Paget
| spouse = Minnie Jane Downing (m.1884 d.1884), Alice Elizabeth Ruth Haden (m.1889)
| party = Ministerialist
| otherparty = Opposition
| relations =
| residence =
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Sugar plant and mill owner
| profession =
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Walter Trueman Paget (7 February 1854 – 23 December 1930) was a farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2807766273|accessdate=22 May 2016}}
Biography
Paget was born in Hagley, Worcestershire,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170232722 |title=OBITUARY. |newspaper=Daily Mercury |volume=64 |issue=304 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=26 December 1930 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} the son of Arthur Paget and his wife Esther (née Gray). After his arrival in Australia in the early 1870s, he, along with his brothers, J.G. and Arthur Paget, selected land at Nindaroo, now a suburb of modern-day Mackay. J.G. Paget soon drowned in the Pioneer River when crossing the river on horseback.
The other brothers first engaged in maize and general farming but amalgamated the blocks they had selected and entered the sugar industry which was in its infancy in the Mackay area. The brothers then erected their own mill and began crushing their own cane as well as the cane of the local neighbouring farms. The mill continued until the 1890s when it was closed.
File:Walter Paget headstone in Mooloola Cemetery, 2007.jpg
On 9 August 1884 Paget married Minnie Jane Downing. Minnie died in December of the same year{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169529795 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Mackay Mercury and South Kennedy Advertiser |volume=35 |issue=36 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=6 December 1884 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}[https://picasaweb.google.com/110094840912923540046/ChurchOfEnglandSectionMToZMackayCemetery#5608617771982954162 Church of England Section, M to Z, Mackay Cemetery] — Picasa Web Albums. Retrieved 22 May 2016. and he then married Alice Elizabeth Ruth Haden on 11 April 1889 in Adelaide and together had two sons and two daughters. On 23 December 1930 Paget died at his home in Mooloolah, apparently after taking a stroke and falling on a knife. His daughter, Miss M. Paget, visiting from Townsville discovered him and a doctor was summoned but he was beyond help. Paget was buried in the Mooloolah Cemetery.[http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Mooloolah_Caloundra/ Walter Trueman PAGET, died 23 Dec 1930] — Chapel Hill. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
Public career
Paget was a Councilor on the Pioneer Divisional Board from 1883 until 1890 and its Chairman from 1890 until 1895 and in 1901. When the member for Mackay, James Chataway died in 1901, Paget won the resulting by-election.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170732773 |title=The Mackay Election |newspaper=Mackay Mercury |volume=87 |issue=27 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=14 May 1901 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} He went on to represent the electorate until the 1915 Queensland state election when he retired from politics.
He was the Secretary for Railways and Agriculture from 1908 to 1911 and Secretary for Railways from 1911 to 1915. The Mackay suburb of Paget was named in his honour.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/pioneer_shire/04_paget.html|title=Walter Trueman Paget|website=Mackay History|access-date=17 March 2017}}{{Cite QPN|46823|Paget|accessdate=17 March 2017}}
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External links
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