MATY, Paul Henry, the son of the former, was born in 1745, and educated at Westminster, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, the travelling fellowship of which he held for three years. He was subsequently chaplain to Lord Stormont at Paris, and soon afterwards vacated his next fellowship by marrying one of the three daughters of Joseph Clerk, and sister of Captain Charles Clerk, who succeeded to the command on the death of Captain Cook. On his father's death in 1776, he was appointed to the office of one of the under librarians of the British Museum, and was afterwards preferred to a superior department, having the care of the antiquities, for which he was eminently qualified. In 1776 he succeeded his father in the office of secretary to the Royal Society. In the disputes respecting the reinstatement of Dr Hutton in the department of secretary for foreign correspondence in 1784, Mr Maty took a warm and distinguished part, and resigned the office of secretary; after which he undertook to assist gentlemen or ladies in perfecting their knowledge of the Greek, Latin, French, and Italian classics. Mr Maty was a judicious and conscientious man; and having conceived some doubts about the articles he had subscribed in early life, he never could be prevailed upon to place himself in the way of ecclesiastical preferment, though his connexions were amongst those who could have served him essentially in this point; and soon after his father's death he withdrew himself from ministering in the established church, his reasons for which he published in the forty-seventh volume of the Gentleman's Magazine (p. 466). His whole life was thenceforward devoted to literary pursuits. He received £100 from the Duke of Marlborough, with a copy of that beautiful work, the Gemmae Marlboroughenses, of which only a hundred copies were worked off for presents, and of which Mr Maty wrote the French account, as Mr Bryant did the Latin. In January 1782 he set on foot a review of publications, principally foreign, which he carried on, with great credit to himself and satisfaction to the public, for nearly five years, when he was obliged to discontinue it on account of ill health. He had long laboured under an asthmatic complaint, which at times made great ravages in his constitution, and at last put a period to his life in January 1787, at the age of forty-two, leaving behind him one son.