He then became a Director of the Bank, and continued to be so till his death, which took place at Kirkland Lodge, Hermiston, near Edinburgh, 16 July 1866.

[3] He is remembered for his place in the history of Scottish banking and as an influential elder in the lead up to, and the early days of, the Free Church of Scotland.

[5] On 3 June 1843, writing to a distance of the great events of the past weeks, he says, "God will overrule all for His own glory in the advancement of His spiritual church and kingdom.

[5] While interesting himself in all the needful administrative arrangements consequent on the Church's new condition, he specially identified himself with matters affecting the Theological College and Library and the Educational Schemes of the Free Church generally, associated in these great questions with his much-loved friend David Welsh.

His wide acquaintance with Ministers and Elders in all parts of Scotland led him to open his house, to the members who came up to this great annual gathering.

[5] In his latest days the work in which he was most deeply interested was the formation of a Society for aiding the education and business training of the sons and daughters of Ministers and Missionaries of the Free Church.

James Martin, who succeeded Dr Andrew Thomson as Minister of St George's, and his many contributions to the periodical publications of the day, illustrate his literary power.

[2] His villa of Kirkland Lodge, near Edinburgh, including its bowling-green, with a view of the Pentlands and the intervening valley, were used by Paul for entertaining guests.

On 22 May, within two months of his death he wrote: "This day the General Assembly meets, and it does seem a strange thing, that instead of being there in the thick of it, I should be here reposing in quiet and comparative solitude."