Stanley Paget was born in London in 1927.
Much to his parents’ despair, he went to army apprentice school, Arborfield, Berkshire, in 1941 aged 14.
Four years later he joined the Corps of Royal Electrical and MechanicalEngineers (REME) and was posted to Egypt.
While serving there as a tank mechanic, he followed his passion for motorbike racing, in particular speedway, building his own bike and becoming a Desert Ace.
It was at the speedway track in Tel El Kebir that he met his first wife, Grace Nisbet, in 1947. They were married in Dundee in 1950 and had three children Jill, Andy and Mark.
He served until 1955 as part of 17th/21st Lancers and his last posting was in Germany. On his return to Dundee, Stan worked at SMT.
He had a particular love of Jaguars and owned an enviable series of classic cars: XK140 and 150, a crimson E Type and a few Mk IIs.
Stan was a real jazz enthusiast. In the mid 1950s he was a founding member of the Dundee Jazz Club, which was set up by Jack and Joyce Hutton.
He and his friend George Watson also had a record shop in Princes Street. Through his London contacts, he met Louis Armstrong and brought many big bands and musicians to Dundee, including Tubby Hayes and Sandy Brown.
Around 1960, Stan worked at McGill’s as a collector. The flexible hours allowed him to develop his career in antiques. He became an expert in militaria, particularly Scottish regimental history, and had several antiques shops before opening Angus Antiques in St Andrews Street in Dundee. He met Alison in the late 1960s and they married in 1977. Family holidays to France were a big part of their life together.
Although his health deteriorated, he continued to add to his collection of antiques and military items. He then began to publish his catalogue, Paget’s Irregular Intelligencer, which was distributed worldwide.
When Stan developed kidney failure in 2008 he attended Ninewells and then Arbroath renal unit, for dialysis three times weekly. Stan died at home. Tragically, his son Andy died only two weeks before him.
Stan is survived by his wife Alison, daughter Jill, son Mark, stepdaughters Carolyn and Su Nicoll and grandsons Alan and Paul Hinnrichs. There will be a celebration of Stan’s life on March 22 at 2pm in the Station Hotel, Carnoustie.