[3] On 30 September 1786 Jodrell was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians of London, and a fellow on 1 October 1787.
Plays of Richard Paul Jodrell were wrongly assigned to him in David Erskine Baker's Biographia Dramatica of 1812.
[2] With his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Bewicke of Close House, Northumberland, Jodrell had a daughter, Paulina Elizabeth (d. 1862), who married, in June 1804, Sir John Henry Seale, 1st Baronet (died 1844).
In 1790 Sir Paul sued the Asiatic Mirror for libel and defamation when it repeated gossip that Miss Cummings was the mother of his daughter Paulina.
[7] Although Sir Paul won the case, the scandal damaged his reputation and led to the Nawab of Arcot withholding his salary.