William Paul (1599–1665) was an English royal chaplain and bishop of Oxford.
He was baptised at St. Leonard's, Eastcheap, on 14 October 1599, a younger son (one of sixteen children) of William Paul, a butcher of Eastcheap, London. He went to Oxford in 1614, and matriculated 15 November 1616 at All Souls' College. He became a fellow of All Souls' in 1618, graduated B.A. 9 June 1618, M.A. 1 June 1621, B.D. 13 March 1629, and D.D. 10 March 1632.
After taking holy orders he was a frequent preacher in Oxford and was rector of a mediety of Patshall, Staffordshire, from 7 February 1626 till 1628. In 1632 or 1633 he became rector of Baldwin-Brightwell, Oxfordshire, and about that time was also made chaplain to Charles I of England, and canon-residentiary of Chichester, holding the prebend of Seaford. After the outbreak of the First English Civil War the House of Lords resolved (5 October 1642) that he should be allowed to attend the king as chaplain in ordinary.
When the war ended he lost his prebend of Chichester as a delinquent, but he was discharged by the committee for sequestrations; under the Commonwealth he lent out money. After the Restoration he again became royal chaplain, and recovered his Seaford prebend and his Oxford livings. He became vicar of Amport, Hampshire, in 1662. He was Dean of Lichfield from 26 January 1661, and took part in the election of John Hacket as bishop.
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William Henry Paul (11 August 1846 – 21 July 1947) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Richmond to shoemaker Samuel Paul and Betsy Walkham. A saddler by trade, he settled in Bathurst and in 1867 married Elizabeth Bray, with whom he had seven children. His business was successful and he eventually became an auctioneer. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Bathurst. He was defeated in 1891. Paul died at Bathurst in 1947.
William Paul (1875–1942) was a New Zealand politician.
Born at Waimate, New Zealand in 1875, Paul was a shearer and farmer. He was the NZLP candidate for Waitaki in 1911 and 1919 then stood as an Independent Labour candidate in 1922.
William Paul served on the Waimate Borough Council for 29 years (1913–42) and was deputy Mayor in 1942 at the time of his death.
Paul Bishop is a thirty-five year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, Paul Bishop’s career has included a three year tour with his department's Anti-Terrorist Division and over twenty-five years’ experience in the investigation of sex crimes. His Special Assaults Units regularly produced the highest number of detective initiated arrests and highest crime clearance rates in the city. Twice honored as Detective of the Year, Paul also received the Quality and Productivity Commission Award from the City of Los Angeles. As a nationally recognized interrogator, Paul starred as the lead interrogator and driving force behind the ABC reality show Take The Money and Run from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Based on his expertise in deception detection, he currently conducts interrogation seminars for law enforcement, military, and human resource organizations. Paul has published fifteen novels, including five in his L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker series. He has also written numerous scripts for episodic television and feature films. He is the co-creator and editor of the Fight Card series of hardboiled boxing novels, which includes over forty titles, published under the pseudonym Jack Tunney. Paul’s own entries in the series are Fight Card: Felony Fists and Fight Card: Swamp Walloper, both featuring the two-fisted cop turned fighter, Patrick ‘Felony’ Flynn. His latest novel, Lie Catchers, begins a new series featuring top LAPD interrogators Ray Pagan and Calamity Jane Randall.
Paul Bishop is an Australian television and theatre actor and company director of ArtsEvolution.com.au Pty Ltd.
Born in Gladstone, Queensland, Bishop's film debut was in Bruce Beresfords 1997 movie Paradise Road, and appeared as Sergeant Ben Stewart on Blue Heelers from 1998 to 2004 for which he received Logie nominations in both 1999 and 2000. Other roles include the TeleMovie " Never Tell me Never", MDA III, Heartbreak High, and GP with ABCTV, HouseGang with SBS, and Murder Call for Channel 9.
Theatre roles include The Importance of Being Earnest, Three Days of Rain, Money and Friends, Take Me Out, The Shaughraun, at Melbourne Theatre Company, Blackrock, The John Wayne Principle and Anthony Crowley's The Frail Man at Melbourne's Playbox, The John Wayne Principle, As You Like It, Poor Super Man, Saint Joan, Amy's View and Money and Friends with Sydney Theatre Company. Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus the King, Away, Taming of the Shrew, The Game of Love and Chance and more than 20 other professional credits with Queensland Theatre Company since 1986.