Herbert Paul

Herbert Woodfield Paul (1853-1935) was an English writer and Liberal MP.

Paul was the eldest son of George Woodfield Paul, Vicar of Finedon, and Jessie Philippa Mackworth.^[1] He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford Union. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1878. He was a leader-writer on the Daily News. In 1883 he married Elinor Budworth, daughter of the Hon. William Ritchie, Legal member of the Viceregal Council at Calcutta.^[2]

In 1892 he became MP for Edinburgh South. He lost his seat in 1895, but returned to the House of Commons as MP for Northampton from 1906 to January 1910. From 1909 to 1918 he was the Second Civil Service Commissioner.^[1]

Works

Men and Letters, 1901
Gladstone, 1901
Matthew Arnold, 1902
History of Modern England, 1904-6 (5 vols)
Life of Froude, 1905

References

^ ^a ^b Who Was Who, 1929-40
^ Foster, Men at the Bar, 1885

Ernest Gaskell, Northamptonshire Leaders: Social and Political. London, Queenhithe, c. 1908

External links

The Life of Froude at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Herbert Paul in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Herbert Paul

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hugh Childers	Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South 1892 – 1895	Succeeded by Robert Cox
Preceded by Henry Labouchère John Greenwood Shipman	Member of Parliament for Northampton 1906 – Jan. 1910 With: John Greenwood Shipman	Succeeded by Charles McCurdy Hastings Lees-Smith

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Date of birth	1853
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Date of death	1935
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