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'''Paul Dudley''' ([[September 3]], [[1675]] – [[January 25]], [[1751]]), [[Attorney-General]] of [[Massachusetts]], was the son of [[Joseph Dudley]]. Paul was born in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
After graduating from [[The Roxbury Latin School]] and then [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1690, he studied [[law]] at the [[Inner Temple|Temple]] in [[London]], and became attorney-general of Massachusetts (1702 to 1718). He was associate justice of the superior court of that province from 1718 to 1745, and chief justice from 1745 until his death in 1751.
He was a member of the [[Royal Society|Royal Society (London)]], to whose ''[[Philosophical Transactions|Transactions]]'' he contributed several valuable papers on the [[natural history]] of [[New England]], as well as the founder of the [[Dudleian lectures]] on religion at [[Harvard University]]. He died in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
==See also==
*[[Dudley-Winthrop Family]]
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