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 BATH. 267 East Biding of Yorkshire, 1721-31 ; Cofferer of the Household, 1723-25. Taking a most active part against the measures of Sir Robert Walpole the Prime Minister, he was by the King himself struck out from the list of Privy Councillors, 1 July 1731, to which he was restored. 20 Feb. 1712 (after the resignation of office by Walpole), and, shortly afterwards, on 'U July 1712, was et: BARON OF IIEDON, co. York, VISCOUNT PULTENEY OF WIUNOTON, CO. SOMERSET, and EARL OF BATH. During the absence of the King from England in April 1743 and May 1715, he was one of the Lords Justices. On 10 Feb. 1746 he was head (as First Lord »f the Treasury) of the " Short lived Miaiilrfy" whieh lasted but two days. Lord Lieut, of Salop", 1761 ; F.R.S. (1741), Sc. His political career is a matter of history, chierlv remarkable for the entire collapse of its estimate in popular estimation whieh followed on h» taking a Feerage.f 1 ) He amassed euurmous wealth (£1,200,000) and great estate*. He m. 27 Dee. 1711, Anna Maria, ( s ) da. and coheir of John QBHLt? of Isleworth, Midx., Commissary Qen. to the Army, by Martha, dn. of Sir John WlTTKWHUNG, 3rd Bart. Mar. lie. at lip. of London's office stating her age as (but) 17. She <l. 14 and was bur., 21 Sep. 1758, at St. Martin's in the fields, aged til. Admon. 9 Oct. 1758, and again 27 May 1775. He</. s.p.s. S July 1764, when his Peerage honours became extinct. He was bur. the 17 at YVestm. Abbey, aged 80 years, 3 months and 5 days. The bodies of his wife and two children (removed from St. Martina in the fields), hud beeu previously deposited in this vault on 21 Vpril 1763, when his hist surv. son was there buried. Will, Sec, dat. 21 May 1763 and 29 May 1764, pr. 16 July 1764.(") [YlI.LIAM PULTEN'KV, ttjfkd YlSCOUXT PULTEXRY, Ollly R. aad h a p. M.l for Old Sanim, 1754. and for Westminster, 1761-63. Lt. Col. in the army, 1759. He </. unui.. on his return from Portugal, at Madrid, v.p., 12 Feb. 1763, and was bur. 21 April following (in a new vault at the [slip chapel) at Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 29 March 1762, pr. 1 June 1763 by a creditor, his father renouncing probate.] Marquesses. 1. Thomas (Thynxe),^) Viscount Weymouth, &c, I 1789 a " :UU ' °* Thomas, 2nd Viscopnt Weymouth, by his second John (CABTERET),( b ) 1st Earl Granville, by his first wife Frances, 0 This was well expressed, by the witty Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, in an epigram to be affixed on the door of Bath House, Piccadilly. "Here, deud.to fame, lira) patriot Will. ; his Grave— a Lordly-seat; His Title proves his Epitaph ; his Uobes — his Winding-sheet." (*) She inherited Oumley House, of which 'here is a view and description in Aungier's " lslcworth," 1S40, p, 223. It was afterwards Bold by her nephew, Viscount Lake. Her other sisters were (1) Lretitia, wife ot Lanncelot Charles Lake, mother of Gerard, o Viscount Lake, 1807: anil (2) Mary, wife of Francis Caiman, mother of George Caiman, the dramatist. Lady Bath was a somewhat celebrated character. Pope iu " The looking glass " wrote of her " Far other carriage graced her virgin life But charming Guinley's lost in Pulteney's wife." See "N. & Q.," 2nd s., v, 370, and 3rd s., ii, 402, in the first of whieh articles is an ominous conjecture as to Lord Bath's sobriquet of "Will. Pulteney," his Lordship baring acquired the vast estates of the Bradford family by devise under the Kill of the mistress of Lord Bradford. ( b ) His only surv. br., Gen Harry Pulteney (4. 14 and bup. 2S Feb. 1685-6 at St, James Westm,), sue. to his enormous wealth and estates, U. uiim. 26 Oct. and was Inn: 5 Nov. 1767, in his 81st year, at Westm. Abbey, when they passed to Frances, da. of his first cousin Daniel Pulteney, wife of William Johnstone, afterwards Sir William Pulteney, Hart. [S.] She </. 1 June 1782 and was sue. bv her only child Henrietta Laura, IT. Baroness Bath in 1792 and Countess of Bath, 1803. See in p. 269 for that title. (") An elaborate account of the family is iu " Stenunata Botevilliana," by Heriah Botfield, 2nd edit., 4to., 1858. See also an able review of Mr. l.lakeway's account of this family (in his " Sheriffs of Shropshire ") by Joseph Morris, in " Top. and Gen," vol iii, ]). 468, Sc. (") He was s. and h. »f George, 1st Lord Carteret, by Grace, sun jure Countess Urauville, yst. da. of Juhn (GiiaNVIi.i.e), Earl of Bath, coheir to her nephew William Henry, the 3rd and last Earl of Bath of that family. See p. 266, note " e." Through this descent the 1st Marquess was a representative of the former Earls of Bath,
 * " ' wife Louisa, sinter and eoheir of Kobert, Eahl Granville, 2nd da. of