Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G. C. H. , 1778-1839 With a Short History of the Paget Family (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G. C. H., 1778-1839: With a Short History of the Paget Family A short time ago, in the year 191 I, I prepared and had privately printed a Memoir of my grandfather, Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Charles Paget, g.o.h. Since then a good deal of additional information has come to hand, especially with regard to his famous action in rescuing the French man-of - war. In August 1912, being in London, I spent some time in the National Record Office going through the logs of most of the ships commanded by Sir Charles Paget and making extracts from them. Thanks to the interest taken by Admiral Sir William Kennedy and others, communications were opened with the Misses Schetky, daughters of the famous Marine Painter who painted the Gallant Rescue, and with great thankfulness I am now able to incorporate in the Memoir their most valuable testimony as to the authenticity of the action. In addition to this my cousin Claude Paget has, with great kindness and labour, supplied me with helpful suggestions and a good deal of material. I have also to thank my friend Mrs. Grove, daughter of the late Admiral Oliver, for lending to me and shipping out to Calgary her complete set of the forty volumes of the Naval Chronicle, from which several additional facts, references, and letters have been gleaned. I desire also to express my thanks to Mrs. Leopold Paget, of Park Homer, for so kindly allowing me to have her picture of the sixth Baron Paget, which dates from the seventeenth century, copied and photographed for this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.