Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet

Sir Horace David Cholwell St Paul, 1st Baronet (6 January 1775 – 8 October 1840) was an English soldier and Member of Parliament.

He was born in Paris, the eldest son of Horace St. Paul of Ewart Park, Northumberland.

Paul's father, a Northumbrian gentleman driven into exile after killing a man in a duel, was a soldier of fortune in the Seven Years' War, who returned to England with an Austrian title and a royal pardon, subsequently distinguishing himself in diplomacy, before retiring to his ancestral home.'

St Paul was educated at Houghton le Spring and Eton College (1783).

In 1832, he attempted to win the newly created seat of Dudley but was defeated by the Whig, Sir John Campbell.