Abraham Walter Paulton [SEP] date of death
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 priesthood, but on leaving at the age of sixteen or seventeen he was apprenticed to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton.
Paulton took interest in politics, especially in the Corn Laws, and became a public speaker. In July 1838 he was
James Mellor Paulton
James Mellor Paulton (1857 – 6 December 1923) was a British journalist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1910.
Paulton was the son of Abraham Walter Paulton of Bolton, and his wife Martha Mellor, daughter of James Mellor, of Liverpool. Venn says that his father was the first editor of the "Manchester Examiner". Paulton was educated at London International College and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted at Inner Temple on 9 November 1878 but