Maurice Eden Paul

Maurice Eden Paul, most commonly known simply as Eden Paul (1865, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset – 1 December 1944) was a socialist physician, writer and translator.[1]

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Biography

The younger son of the publisher Charles Kegan Paul,[2] Maurice Eden Paul was educated at University College School and University College London; he continued his medical studies at London Hospital.[3] In the mid-1880s he helped Beatrice Webb and Ella Pycroft run St Katharine's Buildings in the East End,[4][5] and in 1886 joined Charles Booth's Board of Statistical Inquiry investigating poverty in London.[6]

In 1890, he married Margaret Jessie Macdonald, née Boag, a ward sister at the London Hospital.[7] From 1892-4, he taught at a university in Japan, where his daughter Hester was born in 1893.[8]

He travelled with the Japanese army as a Times correspondent during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895. Between 1895 and 1912, he practiced medicine in Japan, China, Perak, Singapore, Alderney and England.He was the founder and editor of the Nagasaki Press, 1897-99.[9]

By 1903, the family had moved to Alderney, where his wife later established a private nursing home; however, the couple separated about this time.[8] From 1907-19, he was a member of the ILP, and worked for the French Socialist Party from 1912-14. He subsequently joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Later years

In 1932 he retired to live on the French Riviera. In 1939, aged 74, he was badly injured in a motor accident near Grasse.[10] With his second wife, Cedar Paul, he wrote several books for a socialist reading public, and they also worked together to translate from German, French, Italian and Russian.

Works

Translations undertaken with Cedar Paul
Other works

References

  1. ^ 'Paul, Maurice Eden' in Who Was Who
  2. ^ Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, 1979, pgs. 268-9
  3. ^ Entry in The Labour who's who, 1927
  4. ^ Norman Mackenzie, ed., The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 1, Apprenticeships 1873-1892, pgs. 46-7
  5. ^ The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 3, Pilgrimage 1912-1947, pgs. 441-2
  6. ^ Rosemary O'Day and David Englander, Mr Charles Booth's inquiry: Life and labour of the people in London reconsidered, 1993, pg. 32
  7. ^ The Times, 25 December 1890, pg. 1
  8. ^ a b Papers of PAUL, Margaret Jessie (fl. 1851-1919) at the Royal London Hospital
  9. ^ "The Thoreau Centenary in Britain"
  10. ^ The Times, 20 March 1939, pg. 20

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