Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Jodrell, Paul
JODRELL, Sir PAUL, M.D. (d. 1803), physician, was second son of Paul Jodrell of Duffield, Derbyshire, solicitor-general to Frederick, prince of Wales, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Warner of North Elmham, Norfolk (Burke, Peerage, 1891, p. 762). He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1769 as eleventh wrangler, was elected fellow, and proceeded M.A. in 1772, M.D. in 1786. On 30 Sept. of the latter year he was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians, and a fellow on 1 Oct. 1787. He was appointed physician to the London Hospital on 6 Dec. 1786, but resigned that office in November 1787, when he went to India as physician to the nabob of Arcot. He had been knighted on 26 Oct. in the same year (Townsend, Calendar of Knights, 1828, p. 34). Jodrell died on 6 Aug. 1803, at his house on Choaltry Plain, Madras. By his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Bewicke of Close House, Northumberland, he had a daughter, Paulina Elizabeth (d. 1862), who married, in June 1804, Sir John Henry Seale, bart. (d. 1844).
Jodrell was author of a farce acted at Covent Garden, but the title does not appear (Gent. Mag. vol. ci. pt. i. p. 272 n.) The plays of his elder brother, Richard Paul Jodrell [q. v.], are wrongly assigned to him in Baker's ‘Biographia Dramatica,’ 1812, i. 400.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. (1878), ii. 378; Cambridge University Calendar; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ix. 2.]