emigrated to New Zealand, where he settled near Lyttelton, acting for a time as commissary of the bishop, and from 1855 to 1860 as archdeacon of Waimea or Nelson. Shortly after 1860 he returned to England, and in February 1864 was appointed to the rectory of St. Mary, Stamford, which he resigned on account of old age in 1872. In 1867 he became a prebendary of Lincoln, and in the next year he obtained the confratership of Browne's Hospital at Stamford, which he held until his death. He died at Barnhill, Stamford, on 6 June 1877, and was buried on 9 June in Little Casterton churchyard. His widow died at 35 Norland Square, London, on 4 Oct. 1882. They had issue four daughters.
Paul wrote many works. He published ‘An Analysis of Aristotle's Ethics’ in 1829, and of the ‘Rhetoric’ in 1830. A second edition of the ‘Ethics’ came out in 1837, and it was reissued, ‘revised and corrected, with general questions added,’ by J. B. Worcester, in 1879. He compiled a ‘History of Germany,’ ‘on the plan of Mrs. Markham's histories for the use of young persons,’ in 1847, and from 1847 to 1851 he published numerous editions of the plays of Sophocles, with notes from German editors, and many translations of German handbooks on ancient and mediæval geography, Greek and Roman antiquities, and kindred subjects. His books on New Zealand—entitled (1) ‘Some Account of the Canterbury Settlement,’ 1854; (2) ‘Letters from Canterbury,’ 1857; (3) ‘New Zealand as it was, and as it is,’ 1861—contain accurate and valuable information on the history and progress of the colony. In early life Paul published ‘A Journal of a Tour to Moscow in the Summer of 1836,’ and when an old man he wrote, under the pseudonym of ‘the late James Hamley Tregenna,’ a novel in two volumes called ‘The Autobiography of a Cornish Rector,’ 1872, which embodied many incidents in local history and many curious details of folklore, the recollections of youthful days passed in North Cornwall.
[Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Boase's Exeter Coll. ed. 1894, p. 168; Jewers's St. Columb-Major Registers, pp. 127, 173; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. i. 431–3, iii. 1303; Boase's Collectanea Cornub. pp. 662, 1394–5; Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury, 8 June 1877; Stamford and Rutland Guardian, 8 and 15 June 1877.]
PAUL, WILLIAM de (d. 1349), bishop of Meath, is said to have been a native of Kent by Villiers de Saint-Etienne, but of Yorkshire by Cogan (Diocese of Meath, i. 76). He entered the Carmelite order, and studied at Oxford, where he graduated D.D., and subsequently at Paris. In 1309, at a congregation of the order held at Genoa, he was elected provincial of the Carmelites in England and Scotland, and in 1327 was provided by John XXII to the see of Meath, and consecrated at Avignon, his temporalities being restored to him on 24 July. He held the see for twenty-two years, and died in July 1349.
By Bale, Pits, Fabricius, Leland, and Ware, Paul is confused with William Pagula [q. v.]; he is also stated to have written several theological and other works, none of which are known to be extant, and most of which have also been attributed to Pagula (see Villiers de Saint-Etienne, Bibl. Carm. i. 605–6, for a list of them, and discussion as to their supposed authorship).
[Authorities quoted; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1317–1330, p. 139; Pits, p. 363; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hibern.; Ware's Irish Bishops and Writers, ed. Harris; Cotton's Fasti, iii. 113; Paradisus Carmelitici Decoris a Alegre de Casanate, p. 270; Lezana's Annales Carmel. iv. ad annos 1280, 1309, 1313; Possevin's Apparatus Sacer; Cogan's Diocese of Meath, i. 76.]
PAUL, WILLIAM (1599–1665), bishop of Oxford, baptised at St. Leonard's, Eastcheap, 14 Oct. 1599, was a younger son (one of sixteen children) of William Paul, a butcher and citizen, of Eastcheap, London, and his wife Joane, daughter of John Harrison, beadle of the Butchers' Company (Chester, Westminster Abbey Reg.; Foster, Alumni). He went to Oxford in 1614, and matriculated 15 Nov. 1616 from All Souls'. He became a fellow of All Souls' 'about all Saints time 1618,' graduated B.A. 9 June 1618, M.A. 1 June 1621, B.D. 13 March 1628-9, and D.D. 10 March 1631-2. Barlow declared that he answered the divinity act the most satisfactorily of any person he had heard (State Papers, Dom. Car. I, ccxx. 35). After taking holy orders he was a frequent preacher in Oxford (Wood, Athenae Oxon. iv. 828), and was rector of a mediety of Patshall, Staffordshire, from 7 Feb. 1625-6 till 1628 (Lansd. MS. 986, f. 44). In 1632 or 1633 he became rector of Baldwin-Brightwell, Oxfordshire, and 'about that time' was also made chaplain to Charles I, and canon-residentiary of Chichester, holding the prebend of Seaford. After the outbreak of the war the lords resolved (5 Oct. 1642) that he should be allowed to attend the king as chaplain in ordinary (Lords' Journal, v. 386; Commons' Journals, ii. 795; State Papers, Dom. Car. I, ccccxcvii. 97).
