{{Infobox person | name = Paul Withypoll | image = Paul Withypoll portrait detail.jpg | birth_date = c.1480-85 | birth_place = Bristol | death_date = 3 June 1547 | death_place = St. Laurence Poultney in Dowgate, London | occupation = Merchant Taylor of London | website = }}
'''Paul Withypoll''' (by 1485 – 3 June 1547, London) was an English merchant, born in Bristol, who settled in London and became a Member of Parliament for the City of London.<ref name="hop">{{cite web |title=WITHYPOLL, Paul (by 1485-1547), of London and Walthamstow, Essex. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/withypoll-paul-1485-1547 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=The History of Parliament Trust |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moore Smith |first=G. C. |url=https://archive.org/details/moore-smith-withypoll/page/12/mode/2up |title=The Family of Withypoll: with special reference to their Manor of Christchurch, Ipswich and some notes on the allied families of Thorne, Harper, Lucar, and Devereux |date=1936 |publisher=Walthamstow Antiquarian Society |volume=34 |pages=13-23 |chapter=Ch. 1. Paul Withypoll, 1480-1547}}</ref> He had extensive contacts with a group of English merchants and explorers who were engaged in expanding trade networks in the Atlantic world in the early sixteenth century, including the Thorne family of Bristol, Roger Barlow and Sebastian Cabot.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalton |first=Heather |title=Early Modern Merchants as Collectors |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |editor-last=Anderson |editor-first=Christina |location=Abingdon |pages=31-46 |chapter=Portraits, Pearls and Things “wch are very straunge to owres”: The lost collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520–1550}}</ref>
Withypoll's portrait is included in the 'Withypoll Triptych' (1514) he commissioned, painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonio Solario, probably while Withypoll was trading in Italy. This is now on display in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Steer |first=Susan |title=Virgin and Child with St Joseph and Donor (Paul Withypool) |url=https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/NIRP/id/30411/ |access-date=2 September 2024 |website=Vads}}</ref>
In 1545, with his son, Edmund Withypoll he bought land in Ipswich.<ref name="SMI">{{cite web |url=https://www.stmargaretsipswich.org.uk/assets/F-Heritage/Guides-and-documents/The-Withypoll-Family-and-the-Church.pdf |title=St Margaret’s, the Withypoll family and Christchurch Mansion|website=stmargaretsipswich.org.uk/ |publisher=St Margaret's Church, Ipswich |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref>
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