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MATY, PAUL HENRY, only son of Matthew Maty MD FRS, Principal Librarian, British Museum, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Louis Chevalleau, Sieur de Boisragon; b. 18 Dec 1744; adm.; Min. Can. 1757; Edward Gibbon (adm. 1747/8, qv), in a letter to his father of 14 Dec 1758, writes that “I saw at her [Mrs Porten’s] house Dr Maty’s son, a little odd cur, and by an unexampled generosity I tipped the boy with a crown, and the father with a coal of fire” (Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. Prothero, 1896, i, 18); KS (aged 13) 1758; Capt. of the School 1762; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, Worts travelling scholar 1767; 11th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1768, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1770-5; Grand Tour (Italy) 1767-8; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1770, priest 26 May 1771 (both London); Chaplain to David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (afterwards 2nd Earl of Mansfield) (qv), when British Ambassador at Paris; did not seek clerical preferment after 1776 owing to doubts about the Thirty-Nine Articles; FRS 16 May 1771, Foreign Secretary 13 Feb 1772 – 30 Jun 1774, Principal Secretary 30 Nov 1778 – 5 May 1778; Assistant Librarian, British Museum 1776-82, Under Librarian, Dept. of Natural History and Antiquities 1782; started The New Review 1782; compiler, A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, vols 1-70; author of two translations and a volume of sermons; lic. to m. 15 Sep 1775 Harriet, dau. of Joseph Clerke, Wethersfield, Essex; d. 16 Jan 1787. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.