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Boulton was born in Birmingham, where his father, Matthew Boulton the elder, was a "toymaker" (a manufacturer of small metal articles of various kinds).
About 1767, Boulton, who was finding the need of improving the power supply for his machinery, made the acquaintance of James Watt, who on his side appreciated the advantages offered by the Soho works for the development of his steam-engine.
Three years later Boulton and Watt formally entered into partnership, and it was mainly through the energy and self-sacrifice of the former, who devoted all the capital he possessed or could borrow to the enterprise, that the steam engine was at length made a commercial success.
Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer that operated between 1914 and 1961.
By the early 1900s, Boulton and Paul Ltd was a general manufacturing firm based in Norwich, England.
This was followed by Boulton Paul's most famous aircraft, the Defiant, which was a revolutionary but flawed concept -- a "fast" fighter with no fixed forward armament but a powerful four-gun dorsal turret.
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