Sir Paul Jodrell M.D. (1746–1803) was an English physician, in India in the latter part of his life.

Life

He was second son of Paul Jodrell of

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, solicitor-general to

Frederick, Prince of Wales Frederick, Prince of Wales, (Frederick Louis, ; 31 January 170731 March 1751), was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen Caroline. Frederick was the fa ...

, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner of

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, Norfolk;

Richard Paul Jodrell Richard Paul Jodrell (13 November 1745 – 26 January 1831) was a classical scholar and playwright. Life His parents were Paul Jodrell, Solicitor General to Frederick Prince of Wales, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner, of Nort ...

was his elder brother, and plays by Richard have been wrongly assigned to Paul. He was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1769. He was elected fellow, and proceeded M.A. in 1772, M.D. in 1786. He became a fellow of the

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in 1781. On 30 September 1786 Jodrell was admitted a candidate of the

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, and a fellow on 1 October 1787. He was appointed physician to the

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on 6 December 1786, but resigned the post in November 1787, when he went to India as physician to the

Nawab of Arcot The Carnatic Sultanate was a kingdom in South India between about 1690 and 1855, and was under the legal purview of the Nizam of Hyderabad, until their demise. They initially had their capital at Arcot in the present-day Indian state of Tamil N ...

; he had been knighted on 26 October. Jodrell died on 6 August 1803, at his house on Choaltry Plain, Madras.

Works

Jodrell was author of a farce acted at Covent Garden, but the title is lost. Plays of Richard Paul Jodrell were wrongly assigned to him in David Erskine Baker's ''Biographia Dramatica'' of 1812.

Family

With his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Bewicke of Close House,

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, Jodrell had a daughter, Paulina Elizabeth (d. 1862), who married, in June 1804,

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(died 1844). The funeral sermon of William Lennox Cleland (d.1832) states that his father Walter Cleland married 'the daughter of Sir Paul Joderell'; a codicil to Sir Paul's will left £2000 to 'James the son of Catherine Cummins now the wife of Walter Cleland Esqr', although without stating a relationship. However, other sources indicate that Catherine was the protegee of Lady Jodrell, rather than Sir Paul's daughter. In 1790 Sir Paul sued the Asiatic Mirror for libel and defamation when it repeated gossip that Miss Cummings was the mother of his daughter Paulina. Although Sir Paul won the case, the scandal damaged his reputation and led to the Nawab of Arcot withholding his salary.

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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jodrell, Paul 1746 births 1803 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge