The younger son of the 14th Marquess by his marriage to Mary Montagu, a daughter of Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby, he was educated at Burney's Royal Naval Academy, Gosport, before travelling widely, hunting big game in the Rocky Mountains and visiting India, Ceylon, China and Japan.
As Paulet had no children, after his death in 1962, the title passed to Richard Charles Paulet (1905-1968), his distant cousin through Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester [REF].