He was the son of a minor French nobleman, Paul Souchay de la Merie, a Huguenot who left France following the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.His father became an officer in the army of William III of Orange and moved to London in 1689 during the Glorious Revolution but died a pauper in 1735.Paul de Lamerie died in London and was buried at St Anne's Church, Soho.One of his productions to the Portuguese Court was a huge solid silver bathtub lost in the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake.[6] A two-handled silver cup and cover by Paul de Lamerie, dated 1720, was among the wedding gifts of Queen Elizabeth II.