PAULTON

Abraham Walter (son of Walter Paulton of Bolton, Lancs.) b. Bolton 1812; educ. Stony hurst college; apprenticed to a surgeon named Rain forth at Bolton; lectured for the anti-corn-law league 1838–9; editor at Manchester of the Anti-corn-law circular April 1839, the title was changed to Anti-bread-tax circular in April 1841; edited in London the League newspaper Sept. 1843 to 1846; purchased with Henry Rawson the Manchester Times which he edited 1848–54; great friend of John Bright and Richard Cobden. d. Bought on hall, Guild ford, Surrey 6 June 1876. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Prentice’s Anti-corn-law league i 64 et seq. (1853).