Paul Feilde Explained

Paul Feilde (1711–1783) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1770 to 1780. Feilde was the fourth son of Edmund Feilde of Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire and his wife Martha Paul, daughter of James Paul of Braywick, Berkshire, and was baptised on 6 October 1711. He was educated at Westminster School in 1722 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1724.^[1]

In 1737 he was called to the bar and he was a London magistrate and a practising barrister until he succeeded to the family estates on the death of the last of his brothers in 1762. Also in 1762, he became Recorder of Hertford.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn... (William Paley . 1896 . Lincoln's Inn (London, England).
2. Web site: FEILDE, Paul (1711-83), of Stanstead Abbots, Herts. . History of Parliament Online. 9 October 2017.
3. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol8/pp227-240 'Parishes: Roydon', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8, ed. W R Powell, Beryl A Board, Nancy Briggs, J L Fisher, Vanessa A Harding, Joan Hasler, Norma Knight and Margaret Parsons (London, 1983), pp. 227-240. British History Online