PAULET, Frederick (5 son of 13 Marquess of Winchester 1765–1843). b. 12 May 1810; ensign Coldstream guards 11 June 1826, lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 13 Dec. 1860; M.G. 13 Dec. 1860; col. 32 foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; comptroller of the household and equerry to the duchess of Cambridge 1867 to death; L.G. 12 Feb. 1870; officer of the legion of honour 1856; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 1 March 1860. d. D2 the Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1871.
PAULET, George (brother of preceding). b. Rupert house, Southampton 12 Aug. 1803; educ. royal naval college; embarked 18 Dec. 1819; captain 18 Nov. 1833, R.A. 21 July 1856, V.A. 3 April 1863, admiral 20 March 1867; the king of the Sandwich islands having offered indignities to British subjects, the islands were ceded to Paulet in Feb. 1843, but restored 31 July 1843; commanded Bellerophon 7 Nov. 1850 to 1855; aide-de-camp to the queen 22 Sept. 1854 to 21 July 1856; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 22 Nov. 1879.
PAULET, Sir Henry Charles, 1 Baronet (1 son of vice-admiral lord Henry Paulet 1767–1832). b. 1 Aug. 1814; cornet 2 dragoon guards 13 Nov. 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1839, sold out 4 Aug. 1843; cr. a baronet 18 March 1836; a verderer of the New Forest; chairman of New Forest hunt club; often acted as a judge of horses at agricultural shows; resided 5 St. James’ place, London. d. Little Testwood, Southampton 11 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 72 (1887).
PAULET, William (brother of George Paulet 1803–79). b. Amport house, Andover, Hants 7 July 1804; educ. Eton; ensign 85 foot 1 Feb. 1821; major 68 foot 18 Jany. 1833, lieut. col. 21 April 1843, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1847; assistant adjutant-general of the cavalry division in the Crimea 8 March to 18 Nov. 1854; served at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commandant at Scutari 19 Nov. 1854 to 18 Jany. 1855; was in command on the Bosphorus at Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 19 Jany. 1855 to 9 Sept. 1855; commanded the light division in the Crimea; commanded the first brigade at Aldershot 1856–60, and the south-western district 1860–5; adjutant general of the forces 1 July 1865 to 30 Sept. 1870; colonel of 87 foot 27 July 1863, and of 68 foot 9 April 1864 to death; general 7 Oct. 1874, field-marshal 10 July 1886; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 18 St. James’ sq. London 9 May 1893. Times 10 May 1893 p. 5; Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 8 portrait.
PAULI, Georg Reinhold. b. Berlin 25 May 1823; private sec. to C. C. J. baron de Bunsen, Prussian ambassador in England 1852–5; professor of history at Rostock 1857, at Tubingen 1859, at Marburg 1867, and Gottingen 1869 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 15 April 1874, hon. LL.D. Edinb. 22 April 1874; edited J. Gower’s Confessio amantis 1857; The libell of English policye 1878; author of The life of king Alfred, a translation revised by the author 1852; Der Hansische Stahlhof in London, Bremen 1856; Der Gang der internationalen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und England, Gotha 1859; Bilder aus Alt-England 1860; Pictures of Old England, translated by E. C. Otté 1861; Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester 1876. d. Bremen 3 June 1882. Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv 268–73 (1887); F. Frensdorff’s R. Pauli, Gottingen (1882); The Academy 17 June 1882 p. 433.
PAULING, Henry John. b. Rochester 10 March 1821; district engineer of Wellington railway, Cape Town 1859, resident engineer 1864; chief resident engineer of the western railways 1881; engineer in chief to Cape government railways 1885–91, having control of 2,000 miles of lines; M.I.C.E. 4 May 1880. d. Cape Town 8 Sept. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxii 359 (1893).
PAULL, James. b. 1781; D.D. of St. Andrews 1844; minister of College chapel of ease, Aberdeen 1804–12; minister of Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire 1813; convenor of Supplementary orphan fund; moderator of general assembly 1846; one of her majesty’s chaplains in ordinary in Scotland 29 May 1852 to death. d. Tullynessle 21 Oct. 1858. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 2, p. 571 (1871).
PAULSON, Henry. b. Nottingham 4 May 1819; a ballast-heaver at Nottingham; beat Tom Paddock for £25 a side at Sedgebrook near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851; beaten by Paddock for £50 a side at Cross End near Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, there was a disgraceful riot, both men were apprehended and sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment in Derby gaol with hard labour, March 1852; beaten by Paddock for £100 a side at Mildenhall, Suffolk 14 Feb. 1854, in 102 rounds lasting 152 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers £50 a side at Appledore, Kent 29 Jany. 1856, in 109 rounds lasting 3 hours and 8 minutes; beat Harry Tyson £50 a side at Kentish Marshes 14 May 1859. d. at his daughter’s house, Newmarket yard, Sneinton Market, Nottingham 11 Dec. 1890. bur. 15 Dec. F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 277–83, 371–9 (1881); Illust. sporting news iii 261 (1861) portrait; Sportsman 12 Dec. 1890 p. 4.
PAULTON, Abraham Walter (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton, Lancs.) b. Bolton 1812; educ. Stonyhurst college; apprenticed to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton; lectured for the anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of John Bright and Richard Cobden. d. Boughton hall, Guildford, Surrey 6 June 1876. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Prentice’s Anti-corn-law league i 64 et seq. (1853).
PAUMIER, Mungo Noble. b. 1813; tragedian; first appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre 17 May 1836 as Hamlet; acted in many of the principal theatres in Great Britain; lessee of Whitehaven theatre 1867–71. d. Castle view, Egremont, Whitehaven, of cancer of the tongue 31 Jany. 1876. bur. Egremont cemet. 3 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1876 p. 5; Cumberland Pacquet 8 Feb. 1876 p. 3.