in a 1935 article described a perceived plot between the Freemasons and the Communists to take over Europe. Despite these sympathies, he was appointed President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1928–29 and 1940–41. Personal life On 12 November 1895, he married Henry Melville Whitney's niece, the American heiress Pauline Payne Whitney. The marriage was solemnised at St. Thomas's Church in New York City, and among those attending was President Grover Cleveland. The Pagets were the parents of two daughters: Olive Cecilia (b. 1899 – d. 9 September 1974, married three times and later the owner of Leeds Castle). Her third husband, Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, Bt., was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge from 1937 to 1945. Dorothy Wyndham (b. 1905 – d. 9 February 1960, never married) In the middle of World War I, Pauline died at Esher, Surrey, after a three weeks' illness on 22 November 1916. She was buried at Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire. On 19 July 1921, in New York City, he married conspiracy theorist and anti-Mormon agitator Edith Starr Miller, daughter of a wealthy American couple, William Starr Miller and Edith Caroline (Warren) Miller. Granddaughter of George H. Warren, one of the founders of the Metropolitan Opera, Edith Miller had written Common Sense in the Kitchen and Occult Theocrasy. After marriage Paget and Edith moved to Camfield Place, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. They had three daughters: Audrey Elizabeth (b. 4 May 1922 – d. 1991, aviator) Enid Louise (b. 14 July 1923) Cicilie Carol (b. 18 April 1928) The Pagets later separated, and Edith sued in New York City for legal separation on 8 January 1932, citing cruelty. She died in Paris a year later, on 16 January 1933. He died at Hatfield on 22 September 1949, aged 88. With no male heir, his title became extinct. Footnotes External links 1861 births 1949 deaths Paget, Almeric Paget, Almeric Paget, Almeric UK MPs who were granted peerages British people of World War I Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Whitney family Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Knights of Justice of the Order of St John British male sailors (sport) High Sheriffs of Suffolk Almeric Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge People educated at Harrow School British anti-communists British conspiracy theorists Anti-Masonry Barons created by George V Military personnel from London Suffolk Regiment officers Cambridgeshire Regiment officers British