Thomas Humphrey Paget
Born 13 August 1893
Died 30 April 1974
Active: 1914 - 1952
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, medallist, coin designer
Born in Watford, Hertfordshire. He was the son of Walter Stanley Paget (1863-1935), the illustrator of Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe. His uncle was Sydney Paget, illustrator of the original Sherlock Holmes stories in Strand magazine. During the First World War Paget served with the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve (RNVR). He may also have worked for the Royal Army Medical Corps at the 3rd London General Hospital with Francis Derwent Wood, Frederick John Wilcoxson and William Bateman Fagan.
Paget was considered one of the outstanding designers of medals and coins both for British and overseas currencies. Harold Glover, Deputy Comptroller of the Royal Mint and author of Paget's obituary considered his success to rest on an unusually clear and considered understanding of the technical constraints imposed by coinage work. Paget was a member of the Mint's Advisory Committee for over forty years. In 1942 he married the sculptor, Winifred Turner (1903-83). They lived in Sussex and Paget died there in 1974.
For a fuller discussion of the facial injuries unit, see Sarah Crellin, 'Hollow Men: Francis Derwent Wood's masks and memorials, 1915-1925.' Sculpture Journal, vol 6, 2001, pp. 75-88
Wealth at death: £27,236 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 7 November 1974
Works
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Locations
Address 404B Fulham Road London SW10 | View on map
1925 (Circa) - 1940 (Circa)
Address Broom Cottage Westdown Lane Etchingham | View on map
1940 (Presumed) - 1974
Address 143 Old Church Street Chelsea London SW3 | View on map
1941 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)
c/o Chelsea Arts Club
Studio located at 3 Stanley Studios Park Walk London SW10 | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1921 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
'The Right Hon. Andrew Bonar Law'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1920 - 1950
Exhibited 18 times, twenty works in all (portraits, statuettes, model for a war memorial, medals, known materials include bronze, sycamore, and plaster)
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1914
Two years
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1913 (Presumed) - 1914 (Presumed)
Awarded a second prize of £10 for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1913. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1913', (1915), p. 30. In 1914, he also won a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1914', (1915), p. 37.
Teacher of modeling at Central School of Arts and Crafts
1919
First listed as a staff member of the School of Painted, Sculptured and Architectural Decoration in 1919. From 1921 Paget is listed as a day school teacher of modelling from life (men and womens\' classes) and stone carving.
He is still listed as a teacher of modelling in the 1951-1952 prospectus.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful. Did not secure enough nominations to stand.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
October 1942
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Wife/husband/spouse of Winifred Turner
1942
Date of marriage.
Worked with Francis Derwent Wood
At the facial injuries unit during the First World War according to Kineton Parkes (1921), p. 88
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 81 (467)
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Thomas Humphrey Paget
Birth Date: 13 Aug 1893
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1974
Age at Death: 80
Registration district: Battle
Inferred County: Sussex, East Sussex
Volume: 18
Page: 0037
Find a Will
2014
Name: Paget, Thomas Humphrey
Death: 30 April 1974
Probate: 7 November 1974
Page: 6732
London County Council Central School of Arts & Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of Session beginning on the 22 September 1919
22 September 1919
p. 13.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts London. Syllabus and Timetable, 1951-1952
September 1951 (Presumed)
p. 26.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of the Session 1934-1935
September 1934 (Presumed)
Unpaged timetable.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Helen Shiner, ‘Turner , Winifred (1903–1983)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64423, accessed 17 July 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.150.
Sculpture of To-day: America, Great Britain and Japan, vol. 1
1921
pp. 88, 128
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Friday, May 03, 1974; pg. 20; Issue 59080; col G
Mr T. H. Paget Outstanding coin designer
Category: Obituaries
UK, Naval Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1972
2010
Class: ADM 171. Piece: 91.
Citing this record
'Thomas Humphrey Paget', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217499208, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
