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 24 BATH Martin's-in-the-Fields) had been previously deposited in the vault on 21 Apr. 1 763, when his last surv. son was there buried. Will dat. 21 May 1763 and 29 May 1764, pr. 16 July 1764.0 [William Pulteney, styled Viscount Pulteney, only s. and h. ap. M.P. (Whig) for Old Sarum, 1754-61, and for Westm., 1761-63. Lt. Col. in the army, 1759. A Lord of the Bedchamber 1760, and A.D.C. to the King, Jan. 1763, holding both offices till his death. He d. unm., on his return from Portugal, at Madrid, v.p., 2 Feb., and was bur. 2 1 Apr. 1763 (in a new vault in the Islip chapel), in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 29 Mar. 1762, pr. i June 1763 by a creditor, his father renouncing probate.] MARQUESSATE. i. Thomas (Thynne),^) s. and h. of Thomas, T i-,Oq 2nd Viscount Weymouth, by his 2nd wife, Louisa, ' "* sister and coh. of Robert, Earl Granville, 2nd da. of John (Carteret),('=) ist Earl Granville, by his ist wife, Frances, da. of Sir Robert Worsley, Bart., was i. 13 Sep. 1734; sue. his father, as Viscount Weymouth, 12 Jan. 1 750/1; ed. at St. John's Coll. Cambridge; M.A., 1753; cr. LL.D. 1769; a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1760 to 1763; "A county gentleman of good character, old family and large property, a scholar, a writer and a wit, and a most graceful and brilliant speaker." (Lecky). V.G. See N. & Q., 2nd Ser., vol. v, p. 373, and 3rd Ser., vol. ii, p. 402, in the first of which articles is an ominous conjecture as to Lord Bath's sobriquet of '■^IVill Pulteney," his Lordship having acquired the vast estates of the Bradford family by devise under the will of the mistress of Lord Bradford. (") His only surv. br., Gen. Harry Pulteney [h. 14 and bap. 28 Feb. 1685/6, at St. James's, Westm.), sue. to his enormous wealth and estates, d. unm. 26 Oct. and was bur. 5 Nov. 1767, in his 8 ist year, in Westm. Abbey, when they passed to Frances, da. of his ist cousin, Daniel Pulteney, wife of William Johnstone, after- wards Sir William Pulteney, Bart. [S.]. She d. i June 1782, and was sue. by her only child, Henrietta Laura, cr. Baroness Bath in 1792, and Countess of Bath 1803. See under that title. G.E.C. "Little has been talked of lately but the Mountain of Riches Lord Bath has died worth, above Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds in Land and Money. He has made his Brother, General Pulteney, Heir to all this, who is within two years of Eighty. How nobly he might have done by him, and at the same time how many was it in his power to have made happy." (Letter of Lady Dalkeith, 21 July 1764). V.G. (^) An elaborate account of the family is in Stemmata Botevilliana, by Beriah Botfield, 2nd edit., 1858. See also an able review of Blakeway's account of this family (in his Sheriffs of Shropshire), by Joseph Morris, in Top. and Gen., vol. iii, pp. 468-491, and J. H. Round's "The Origin of the Thynnes," in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xi, p. 193. (') He was s. and h. of George, ist Lord Carteret, by Grace, sua jure Countess Granville, yst. da. of John (Granville), Earl of Bath, coh. to her nephew, William Henry, the 3rd and last Earl of Bath of that family. See ante, p. 22, note "c." Through this descent the ist Marquess was a representative of the former Earls of Bath.