American lawyer
Paul Dudley FRS (September 3, 1675 – January 25, 1751), Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay , was the son of colonial governor Joseph Dudley and grandson of one of the colony's founders, Thomas Dudley .[ 1]
Dudley was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1675.[ 1] Roxbury Latin School and then, at the age of 15, from Harvard in 1690, he studied law at the Temple in London , and became Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1718. He was associate justice of the province's highest court, the Superior Court of Judicature , from 1718 to 1745, and chief justice from 1745 until his death in January 1751.
He was a member of the Royal Society , to whose Transactions natural history of New England , as well as the founder of the Dudleian lectures on religion at Harvard University . Dudley was an investor in the Equivalent Lands .[ 2] Dudley, Massachusetts . In 1705, Dudley was recorded as owning an enslaved boy , and he acquired another slave in 1745 named Guinea.[ 3]
Dudley died in Roxbury, and is buried in the Eliot Burying Ground next to his father and grandfather.
References
public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Dudley, Thomas ". Encyclopædia Britannica
The Dudley–Winthrop family tree
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