James Mellor Paulton (1857 – 6 December 1923) was a British journalist and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1910.

Biography

Paulton was the son of

Abraham Walter Paulton Abraham Walter Paulton (1812–1876) was an English politician and journalist. Life He was son of Walter Paulton of Bolton, Lancashire, where he was born into a Roman Catholic family. He was sent to Stonyhurst College to be educated for the prie ...

of Bolton, and his wife Martha Mellor, daughter of James Mellor, of Liverpool. Venn says that his father was the first editor of the ''

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''. Paulton was educated at

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and at

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. He was admitted at

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on 9 November 1878, but became a journalist. He was war correspondent for the ''Manchester Examiner'' in 1884 when he reported on the campaign in Egypt.Edward M. Spiers ''The Victorian Soldier in Africa'' He was present at

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in 1884. At the 1885 general election, Paulton was elected as

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for

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. He was private Secretary to

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and

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in the Home Office in 1886, and assistant private secretary to

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from 1893 to 1895. He held his seat until he retired from the

at the January 1910 election. Paulton was assistant paymaster-general at the Supreme Court from 1909 to 1921.

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* 1857 births 1923 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 English male journalists Members of the Inner Temple Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge English male non-fiction writers {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub