Hamilton Paul
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Hamilton Paul (10 April 1773 – 28 February 1854) was a Scottish church minister, and a writer, poet and humourist. In 1819 he edited the works of Robert Burns.
Paul was born on 10 April 1773 in the parish of Dailly, Ayrshire. He attended the parish school, and afterwards went to the University of Glasgow, where he had as class-companion Thomas Campbell the poet, with whom he successfully competed for a prize poem. The two poets corresponded long after they had left Glasgow. Leaving the university, Paul became tutor in an Argyllshire family; but his literary bent induced him to become a partner in a printing establishment at Ayr, and for three years he edited the Ayr Advertiser. Licensed to preach by the presbytery in July 1800, he became assistant at Coylton that year, and occupied several similar positions until 1813, when he was presented with the united livings of Broughton, Kilbucho, and Glenholm in Peeblesshire. He died, unmarried, on 28 February 1854, in Broughton.[1]
