James Mellor Paulton (1857 – 6 December 1923)[1] was a British journalist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1910.

Paulton was educated at London International College and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

[4] He was war correspondent for the Manchester Examiner in 1884 when he reported on the campaign in Egypt.

He held his seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the January 1910 election.

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