{{Short description|English librarian (1744–1787)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Paul Henry Maty''' (1744 – 16 January 1787) was an English [[librarian]].
Maty was born in London, the son of the librarian [[Matthew Maty]] (1718–1786), and was educated at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=MTY763PH|name=Matty <nowiki>[or Maty]</nowiki>, Paul Henry}}</ref> He vacated a Trinity fellowship to marry in 1775. In 1777 he published his religious doubts about the [[39 articles]] in the ''[[Gentleman's Magazine]]''. With his Ecclesiastical advancement thus impeded, he became an assistant librarian, and then under-librarian, at the [[British Museum]].
He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in May 1771.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27maty%27%29 |title=Library and Archive|publisher= Royal Society |accessdate=2 October 2010}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also obtained the job of foreign secretary, and subsequently general secretary, to the Society – although taking [[Charles Hutton]]'s side in his dispute with the president [[Joseph Banks]] forced Maty's resignation in 1784.
From 1782 to 1786 Maty founded, edited and was primary author of a review journal, ''[[A New Review]]: with Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence''. He indexed the ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions]]'', collaborated with [[Samuel Ayscough]] on a catalogue of the British Museum's printed books, and translated the ''Travels through Germany'' of [[Johann Kaspar Riesbeck]] (1754-1786). Some of his sermons were posthumously published by [[Samuel Horsley]].
On his death he was buried in [[Bunhill Fields]].
==Works== *''An history of the instances of exclusion from the Royal Society … with strictures on the formation of the council and other instances of the despotism of Sir Joseph Banks, the present president'', 1784 *''A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, vols. i–lxx'', 1787 *(with Samuel Ayscough & S. Harper) ''Librorum impressorum qui in Museo britannico, adservantur catalogus'', 1787 *(transl.) ''Travels through Germany, in a series of letters'', 1787 *''Sermons preached in the British Ambassador's Chapel, at Paris, in the years 1774, 1775, 1776'', 1788
==References== {{reflist}} *Thomas Seccombe, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18354 ‘Maty, Paul Henry (1744–1787)’], rev. Rebecca Mills, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 6 Jan 2008
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