He was sent to Stonyhurst College to be educated for the priesthood, but on leaving at the age of sixteen or seventeen he was apprenticed to a surgeon named Rainforth at Bolton.
Paulton gave up on the medical profession, was introduced to Richard Cobden, and engaged himself as a lecturer for the Anti-Corn-Law League.
It was succeeded in September 1843 by the League newspaper, which had its headquarters in London, and Paulton moved there as editor.
[2] In 1854 Paulton married the daughter of James Mellor of Liverpool, and from that time resided in London, or at his country house, Boughton Hall, Surrey.
He died at Boughton Hall, on 6 June 1876, leaving a son and a daughter, and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery.