Julian Paget – Waterloo Historian – RIP
November 23, 2016 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts, Chairman's Blog
On behalf of the Waterloo Association and Waterloo 200 I attended the Memorial Service for Julian Paget who died in September. He had been a great 
authority on Waterloo and the battle around Hougoumont for many years.
His book on Hougoumont (http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Hougoumont-Paperback/p/278) is the popular choice for those who wish to specialise in this part of the battle. I remember him when I first got involved with Waterloo and he was organising the Quatre Bras Memorial. Clive Hamilton was the inspiration for this but Julia
n did much to raise the money for it.
Julian was the most charming and urbane man you could possibly meet. His service was held in the Chapel at Royal Hospital where he had been married in the 1950s and where his father General Sir Bernard Paget was the Governor. It was a lovely service with marvellous music and some fine testimonials. One reading quoted: Success by Bessie Stanley included: “he has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction”.
