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7 unusual facts about William Pulteney


Harry Pulteney

His elder brother, William was one of the leading English statesmen of the 18th century and was eventually created Earl of Bath; he had inherited the family fortune including considerable estates in what is now central London, and also the parliamentary borough of Hedon in Yorkshire.

John Gumley

Gumley's daughter married William Pulteney, the future Earl of Bath in 1714.

John Pulteney

John Pulteney was son of Sir William Pulteney, and uncle to William Pulteney, later Earl of Bath.

William Pulteney

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764), British MP for Hedon and Middlesex, Cofferer of the Household

Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet (1729–1805), Scottish lawyer, MP for Cromarty and Shrewsbury

William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney (1731–1763), his son, British MP for Old Sarum and Westminster, Lord of the Bedchamber

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816), and of Henry Pelham (1829)



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