{{Short description|English writer and MP (1853–1935)}} {{For|the German footballer|Herbert Paul (footballer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} thumb|Herbert Paul '''Herbert Woodfield Paul''' (1853–1935) was an English writer and Liberal MP.
==Life== He was the eldest son of George Woodfield Paul, Vicar of Finedon, and Jessie Philippa Mackworth.<ref name="Who Was Who, 1929-40">''Who Was Who, 1929-40''</ref> 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.<ref>Foster, ''Men at the Bar'', 1885</ref>
In 1892 Paul became MP for Edinburgh South. He lost his seat in 1895, but remained politically active speaking out against the Boer War for instance at the Liberal conference of 1900.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 February 1900 |title=Sketches From Westminster |work=The Manchester Guardian |pages=5}}</ref> He 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.<ref name="Who Was Who, 1929-40"/>
==Works== *''Men and Letters'', 1901 *''Gladstone'', 1901 *''Matthew Arnold'', 1902 *''History of Modern England'', 1904-6 (5 vols) ** vol 1: Covers 1846 to 1855. Chapters include the last Whig Government, Palmerston's Foreign Policy, The Irish Famine, The Court and the People, Revolution and Reaction, English Chartists and Irish Rebels, The Era of Retrenchment, The Expansion of England, Theology and Literature, Lord Palmerston's Triumph, The Development of the Colonies, England and the Church of Rome, The Literature of the Mid-Century, Palmerston's Fall, The First Government of Lord Derby, The Coalition, The Eastern Question, The First Part of the Russian War, The Second Part of the Russian War. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.180002 online] ** vol 2: Covers 1855–1865. [https://books.google.com/books?id=libHAAAAMAAJ online v 2] ** vol 3: Covers 1865 to 1875. Chapters include The Russell-Gladstone Ministry, The Education of the Conservative Party, The Irish Church, Parties in the Church of England, The Climax of Liberalism, England and the Continent, Army Reform, The Settlement with America, The Conservative Reaction, The Liberal Heritage, Theology and Literature, The Ministry of All the Opportunities, Intellectual and Social Progress. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174318 online] ** vol 4: Covers 1875 to 1885. Chapters include The Storm in the East, Lord Beaconsfield's Position, The Fruits of Imperialism, The Storm in the West, The Policy of Reversal, The Irish Revolution, Egypt, The Soudan, Lord Spencer's Task, The Franchise, The Fall, Church and State. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.180183 online] ** vol 5: Covers 1885 to 1895. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167842 online] *''Life of Froude'', 1905 [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14992 online]
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==References== * Ernest Gaskell, ''Northamptonshire Leaders: Social and Political''. London, Queenhithe, c. 1908
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=5779}} * {{Internet Archive author |search=( "Paul, Herbert W." OR "Paul, Herbert Woodfield" OR "Herbert Woodfield Paul" OR "Herbert Paul")}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-herbert-paul | Herbert Paul }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South | years = 1892 – 1895 | before = Hugh Childers | after = Robert Cox }} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Northampton | years = 1906 – Jan. 1910 | with = John Greenwood Shipman | before = Henry Labouchère<br />John Greenwood Shipman | after = Charles McCurdy<br />Hastings Lees-Smith }} {{s-end}}
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