Engraving from a Portrait dated around 1818 of William Paley with a fishing rod, the original is in Carlisle Cathedral. The face is copied in the oil painting (cc00003) in the Hall. William Paley was admitted as a sizar in 1758 aged 15 years old. Scholar in 1759. He was BA (senior wrangler) in 1763; D.D.1795. Elected Fellow 1766. Married Miss Hewitt of Carlisle 1771 and left Cambridge that year. Prebendary of Carlisle 1780; Archdeacon 1782; Chancellor of the diocese 1785. Various other appointments. His first wife died in 1791 leaving him four sons and four daughters. In 1795 he married Miss Dobinson of Carlisle and lived in comfort in Monkwearmouth. He died in 1805 and is buried in Carlisle cathedral. He wrote many books "Nobody has surpassed Paley in writing textbooks. He is an unrivalled expositor of plain arguments, though he neither shared nor claimed originality. His morality is one of the best statements of utilitarianism of the eighteenth century...The Evidences (Evidences of Christianity 1794) still hold their place as a textbook.." (DNB + PB
