John Paget (author)
John Paget was an English agriculturist and author on Hungary.Life and works
Paget was born in Loughborough,. He was educated at the Unitarian Manchester College at York, and then read medicine. He travelled extensively in Europe. He married the Hungarian Baroness Polyxena Wesselenyi Banffy, divorced wife of Baron Ladislaus Banffy, on 15 November 1836. He lived on his wife's estate in Transylvania, developing the farming there with an "improved" breed of cow, and campaigning for improvements to agriculture. His diary, in six volumes, is in Hungary's National Museum. Volumes 1-5 contain observations on natural history around Europe. Volume 6 records Hungary's 1849 war of independence, in which Paget took part.
He is known for his 1839 book Hungary and Transylvania.
In 1878 after the World Exhibition in Paris he was given the cross of the Legion of Honour.
He died in Ghiriş and is buried in the Hajongard Cemetery in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
