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Authorised form of nameDudley; Paul (1675 - 1751)
Dates1675 - 1751
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRoxbury, Massachusetts
Date of birth03 September 1675
Place of deathRoxbury, Massachusetts
Date of death25 January 1751
OccupationBarrister
Research fieldNatural history
ActivityEducation:
Harvard. BA (1690). Boston; Middle Temple (admitted 1697)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1700); Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1702); Advocate in the Vice-Admiralty court at Boston (1702); Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature (1718); Chief Justice of Massachusetts (1745-death)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/11/1721
RelationshipsSon of Governor Joseph Dudley and his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Judge Edward Tyng; married Lucy, daughter of Colonel John Wainwright of Ipswich
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DAB
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane; John Chamberlayne
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71825360
Royal Society codeNA7811
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EL/D1/95Letter, from Paul Dudley to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Roxburg12 April 1733
EL/D1/79Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society], dated at Roxburg13 November 1723
RBO/11/69'An account of a new Sort of Molosses made of Apples' by Paul Dudley1723
RBO/11/70'Smelts transplanted' by Paul Dudley1723
LBO/21/28Copy letter from Paul Dudley to Cromwell Mortimer18 December 1733
LBO/20/74Copy letter from Paul Dudley, Roxbury, New England, to Dr Mortimer12 April 1733
NLB/60/239Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings] White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Alfred Jones Esquire; Tower Hotel, Pwllheli, N. Wales3 January 1921
RBO/12/10'Observations on some of the Plants in New England with remarkable Instances of the Nature and Power of Vegetation in a Letter to the Publisher from the honourable Paul Dudley'1724
CLP/10iii/42Paper, 'An account of a method lately found out in New England for discovering where the bees hive' by Paul Dudley[1720]
CLP/10iii/42/2Plate, method of locating beehives by Paul Dudley[1720]
CLP/10i/45Paper, 'An account of the poyson wood tree in New England' by Paul Dudley7 January 1720
CLP/10ii/3Paper, 'Observations on some of the plants in New England, with remarkable instances of the nature and power of vegetation' in a letter from Paul Dudley to the publisher1720s
CLP/10iii/42/1Manuscript, 'An account of a method lately found out in New England for discovering where the bees hive' by Paul Dudley[1720]
CLP/14ii/16Paper, 'An account of an extraordinary cure by sweating in hot turff [sic], with a description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley13 November 1723
CLP/10iii/41Paper, 'A method for making sugar from the maple tree in N [New] England' by Paul Dudley[1719]
CLP/15i/68Paper, 'Description of the moose deer in America' by Paul DudleyMay 1721
EL/D1/77Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg3 November 1722
EL/D1/74Account of the Cataract of Falls of Niagara Falls by Paul Dudley10 October 1721
EL/D1/81Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society]10 October 1724
EL/D1/82Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society], dated at Boston11 December 1724
EL/D1/78Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg6 July 1723
EL/D2/68Letter, from Paul Dudley to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Bolton24 December 1736
EL/D1/76Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg3 November 1722
EL/D1/88Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg21 December 1725
EL/D1/84Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg2 April 1725
EL/D1/89Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg21 January 1726
EL/D1/83Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society], dated at Boston10 December 1724
EL/D1/80Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg3 October 1724
EL/D1/91Accounts of the Aurora Borealis and the effect of lightening by Paul Dudley, dated at Roxbury, New England21 January 1726
EL/D1/72Letter, from Paul Dudley to John Chamberlayne, dated at Boston20 June 1719
CLP/10iii/43Paper, 'An account of a new sort of molosses [sic] made of apples' by Paul Dudley25 October 1722
EL/D1/92Letter, from Paul Dudley [to the Royal Society], dated at Roxbury13 November 1727
CLP/7ii/1Paper, regarding a trading voyage by Joseph Kellug from Canada to the Mississippi by Paul Dudley1721
EL/D1/94Letter, from Paul Dudley to the Secretary of the Royal Society, dated at Roxbury 13 November 1727
EL/D1/86Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg5 April 1725
CLP/15i/70Paper, 'Smelts transplanted' by Paul DudleyJanuary 1723
EL/D1/85Paper, 'An essay upon the natural history of whales with a particular account of the amber-greese found in the Sperma Ceti Whale' by Paul Dudley, dated at Roxburg5 April 1725
EL/D1/90Paper, four physiological case studies by Paul Dudley, dated at Roxbury, New England21 January 1726
CLP/11ii/20Paper, 'A treatise of ambargris' by Caspar Neuman [Neumann]15 October 1729
RBO/19/56'Description of the Ever-greens of New England' by Paul Dudley1736
RBO/11/25'An account of the Poison wood Tree in New England by the honourable Paul Dudley' communicated by John Chamberlayne1720
RBO/11/26'A Method for making Sugar from the Maple Tree in new England communicated by Mr Paul Dudley'1720
RBO/11/31'A Description of the Moose Deer in America by the Honourable Paul Dudley' communicated by John Chamberlayne1721
RBO/11/71'An account of the Rattle Snake' by Paul Dudleynd
RBO/11/98'Account of an extraordinary Cure by Sweating in hot Turf with a Description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley1723
EL/D1/73Copy of a letter, from Paul Dudley to John Chamberlayne, dated at Boston15 March 1720
EL/D1/75Letter, from Paul Dudley to John Chamberlayne, dated at Roxburg14 April 1722
EL/D1/87Letter, from Paul Dudley to James Jurin, dated at Roxburg9 November 1725
EL/D1/93Letter, from Paul Dudley to Reverend [William] Derham, dated at Boston17 April 1735
CLP/15i/71Paper, 'An account of the rattlesnake' by Paul Dudley25 October 1722
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