PAUL, Isabella, stage name of Isabella Hill (dau. of George Thomas Hill, leather merchant). b. Dartford, Kent 1833; educ. France and Italy; had a contralto voice ranging from A in the bass clef to A in alt.; first appeared in London as Isabella Featherstone at Strand theatre, playing captain Macheath in the Beggar’s opera March 1853; Lucy Lockit in Beggar’s opera Strand 5 May 1853; Juana in Mark Lemon’s Paula Lazarro Drury Lane 9 Jany. 1854; appeared at Wallack’s theatre, New York 10 Sept. 1855; acted Sir Launcelot de Lake in the Lancashire witches Lyceum 3 July 1858; m. 13 July 1854 at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London G. Henry Howard Paul, actor and dramatist, b. Philadelphia, U.S. of America 16 Nov. 1835 (son of Stephen Carmick Paul); they gave entertainments in London and the provinces from 1860, in which she imitated Sims Reeves, Henry Russell and other vocalists; gave an entertainment, Ripples on the Lake, Strand 2 Sept. 1867; she played Lady Macbeth and Hecate in Macbeth at Drury Lane Feb. 1869, and Mistigris in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; sang in comic opera in Paris; played the title role in Offenbach’s Grand Duchess at the Olympic 20 June 1868, and in Paris in a French version; played Little Gil Blas in Farnie’s extravaganza Little Gil Blas at Princess’s 24 Dec. 1870; toured the provinces with a company of her own in an entertainment 1873; played Lady Sangazure in W. S. Gilbert’s The Sorcerer at Opera Comique 17 Nov. 1877; taken ill while performing in The crisis at Sheffield 30 May 1879. d. 17 The Avenue, Bedford park, Turnham Green, London 6 June 1879. bur. Brompton cemet. 11 June. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 414; The Period 14 Jany. 1871 p. 15 portrait; Illust. sporting news vi 561 (1867) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ii 489, 491 (1875) portrait, xi 302, 305 (1879) portrait; E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 107, 721; Appleton’s American biography iv 678 (1888); The Era 1 June 1879 p. 9, 15 June p. 12. PAUL, John. Presbyterian minister, Maybole; minister of St. Cuthbert’s or West Kirk, Edinb. 17 April 1827 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 27 April 1847; moderator of the general assembly 20 May 1847; author of The miraculous propagation of the gospel 1834. d. 4 Nov. 1883.
PAUL, Sir John Dean, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Paul, M.D. of Salisbury, d. 15 June 1815). b. 25 Dec. 1775; educ. Westminster 1787, king’s scholar 1788; exhibited 20 landscapes at the R.A. 1802–37; partner in Snow, Strahan, Paul and co., bankers, which became Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, 218 Strand, London; baronet by patent dated 3 Sept. 1821; created D.C.L. Oxf. 13 June 1834; author of Journal of a party of pleasure in Paris 1802, 2 ed. 1814; The former times, an address by A Norfolk Independent whig 1820; Rouge et noir, Versailles, and other poems 1821 anon.; The man of ton, a satire 1828 anon.; Joseph, a poem 1840; Ruth, a poem, 1841; The country doctor’s horse, a tale 1847. d. Hill house, Stroud 16 Jany. 1852.
PAUL, Sir John Dean, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 218 Strand, London 27 Oct. 1802; educ. Westminster 1811 and Eton 1817; partner in Strahan, Paul, Paul and Bates, bankers and navy agents of 217 Strand, London 1828, which suspended payment 11 June 1855; Strahan, Paul and Bates, the partners in the firm, signed and handed in to the court of bankruptcy a list of securities amounting to £113,625 belonging to their clients but which had been fraudulently sold or deposited by them; they were indicted at the Old Bailey 26 Oct. 1855 for converting to their own use Danish bonds value £5,000 belonging to John Griffith, canon of Rochester, they were found guilty and sentenced to transportation for 14 years 27 Oct.; the debts proved against the firm amounted to three quarters of a million, the business was taken over by the London and Westminster bank; released from Woking prison 23 Oct. 1859; lived at Lower Lancing, Shoreham, Sussex 1861–7; a wine merchant at Wheathampstead near St. Albans 1867 to death; illustrated his father’s book The country doctor’s horse 1847; author of Harmonies of scripture and short lessons for young christians 1846; Bible illustrations, or the harmony of the old and new testament 1855; A.B.C. of fox-hunting, consisting of twenty six coloured illustrations by the late sir John Dean Paul, bart. 1871. d. St. Albans 7 Sept. 1868. D. M. Evans’s Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 106–53; Price’s Handbook of London bankers (1876) 128–30; P. Fitzgerald’s Chronicles of Bow st. ii 244–51 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clement’s i 108, 249, 315 (1868).
Note.—His grandnephew Wentworth Francis Dean Paul (2 son of Sir Edward John Dean Paul, 4 baronet), b. 26 Nov. 1870; one of the best four-in-hand whips in England or America, took first prize for driving a team at the Chicago world’s fair 1893; much dejected owing to his debts; poisoned himself with prussic acid at Bath hotel, Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1893.
PAUL, Matthew Combe. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 23 Feb. 1807, captain 9 Nov. 1818; major 9 N.I. 11 April 1828 to 19 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 9 N.I. 31 March 1835 to 2 Feb. 1845; col. of 29 N.I. 2 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 17 May 1859. d. 43 Harewood sq. London 7 Jany. 1865.
PAUL, Robert (son of Wm. Paul, pastor of the West Kirk, Edinb. 1754–1802). b. Edinburgh 15 May 1788; educ. Edinb. univ.; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinb. 1807, secretary 1823, manager to 1853, then a director to death; joined the Free church disruption 1843, an elder under Dr. R. S. Candlish at St. George’s ch. Edinb. 1843; assisted in promoting the theological college and library, the Soc. for training the children of ministers and missionaries, and the Orphan hospital; author of The finest of wheat, extracts from the writings of the older divines 1849; Memoir of rev. James Martin. d. Kirkland lodge, near Edinb. 16 July 1866. R. Bell’s Memoir of R. Paul (1872) portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 429–34.
PAUL, Robert Bateman (eld. son of Richard Paul, rector of Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall, d. 7 Dec. 1805). b. St. Columb-Major, Cornwall 21 March 1798; educ. Truro gr. sch. and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1817 to 11 Jany. 1827, bursar and tutor 1825; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; public examiner in classics 1826–7; C. of Probus, Cornwall to Jany. 1824; V. of Long Wittenham, Berkshire 1825–9; V. of Llantwit-Major with Llyswarney, Glamorganshire 1829–35; V. of St. John, Kentish Town, London 1845–8; V. of St. Augustine, Bristol 1848–51; went to New Zealand 1851; archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson 1855–60; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1864–72; prebendary of Lincoln 1867 to death; confrater of Browne’s hospital, Stamford 1868 to death; author of An analysis of Aristotle’s ethics 1829, 2 ed. 1837; An analysis of Aristotle’s rhetoric 1830; Journal of a tour to Moscow 1836; History of Germany 1847; Some account of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand 1854; Letters from Canterbury 1857; New Zealand as it was and as it is 1861; The autobiography of a Cornish rector. By the late James Hamley Tregenna [pseudonym] 2 vols. 1872; published many editions of the plays of Sophocles and translations of German handbooks on subjects of geography and antiquities. d. Barnhill Stamford 6 June 1877. bur. Little Casterton churchyard 9 June. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 431–3, iii 1303 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 662, 1394–5.
PAUL, Thomas Henry. b. 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; ensign 5 Bengal N.I. 6 Oct. 1801, captain 16 Dec. 1814; major 20 N.I. 22 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 30 July 1828, col. 9 July 1840 to death; general 22 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Melcombe place, Dorset sq. London 11 June 1866.
PAUL, William. b. 1810; connected with journalism from 1834; proprietor of The Chronicle of Convocation 1859 till it was remodelled by lower house of convocation; edited the Railway Times to 1881. d. at his house, West Kensington, London 12 April 1884. Railway Times 19 April 1884 p. 496.
PAUL, William (son of rev. William Paul, professor of natural philosophy, Aberdeen). b. Manse of Marycutter 27 Sept 1804; M.A. Aberdeen 1822, D.D. 1853; assistant minister of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeen 1826, minister 1834 to death; author of Analysis of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1852; The scriptural account of creation vindicated by the teaching of science 1870; Past and present of Aberdeenshire 1881. d. Banchory-Devenish manse, end of April 1884. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 494 (1871).