Conservative Councillor Paul Mould has died at the age of 78.
Councillor Mould, who represented Staniland South ward, was a latecomer to politics, being elected to the council in May 2011.
He was a member of the licensing/regulatory and appeals committee, the environment and performance committee, the corporate and community committee, the planning committee, the Boston Town Area Committee and the internal international links committee.
Councillor Mould also represented the council on the Boston Citizens Advice Bureau Management Committee, the Boston Municipal Non-Educational Charities, the Council of Fydell House Centre, Lincolnshire Arts Forum and Boston Grammar School Foundation Governors.
Boston born and bred, Paul Mould lived in the town all his life, except for two years National Service in the RAF.
He was educated at the town’s Staniland School and Boston Grammar School and started as a cub reporter at the Boston Guardian in 1950.
He left to join the family bakers and grocers business, which closed in 1969 when the building of a new bridge led to the decline of the High Street in Boston.
He became a travelling salesman, covering a radius of fifty miles around Boston until 1983, when he started dealing in printing machinery.
He organized exports to India and Nigeria and acted as auctioneer at monthly auctions from 1988 -1991.
After going to hospital in a diabetic coma in 1994, he decided to write cinema reference books and subsequently became a publisher – establishing Paul Mould Publishing in 2004.
As well as publishing numerous titles by other authors his own titles included:
Wartime Schooldays in Boston - (1996)
Mould's Movie Careers - Actresses - (1999)
Down Memory Lane - (2002)
Mould's Movie Careers - Directors - (2003)
Over the years, he also wrote a sports column in the Boston Standard and a nostalgia column in both the Standard and Target.
He organised the Boston Snooker and Billiards League for 25 years and was a past President of the Old Bostonian Association.
He was also a member of MENSA  –  the society for people with an IQ in the top 2%.

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