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unusual facts about Alexander Chancellor


Sir Richard Paget, 2nd Baronet

Pamela's son and Sir Richard's grandson, Alexander Chancellor, wrote in his "Long Life" column in The Spectator that Pamela had broken her arm when Sir Richard encouraged her to throw herself backwards from the open platform of a London bus on Park Lane to demonstrate his theory that, due to air currents, one could fall horizontally from a bus travelling at a certain speed and land safely on the road.


Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea

Their only surviving child Lady Muriel Finch-Hatton (1876-1938) married Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget of Cranmore Hall, 2nd Baronet (1869-1955) and left issue, including their grandsons Alexander Chancellor, the father of model Cecilia Chancellor, and John Paget Chancellor, who married the Hon.


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