William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney

He was the only son of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath and his wife Anna Maria Gumley, daughter of John Gumley.{{cite book | editor = Sir Lewis Namier, John Brooke | title = The House of Commons, 1754-1790 | volume = I | publisher = Secker & Warburg | location = London | year = 2002 | pages = 339–340 }} Pulteney was educated at Westminster School from 1740 to 1747 and began his Grand Tour in the following year. He traveled with John Douglas first to Leipzig, met his parents in Paris in 1749 and went then to Turin.

In 1754, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting for Old Sarum until 1761.{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ocommons.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231452/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ocommons.htm | archive-date = 10 August 2009 | title = Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Old Sarum | url-status = usurped | accessdate =22 July 2009 }} Subsequently, he represented Westminster as member of parliament (MP) until his death in 1763.{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231534/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm | archive-date = 10 August 2009 | title = Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Westminster | url-status = usurped | accessdate =22 July 2009 }} Pulteney was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber in 1760 and served as Aide-de-Camp to King George III the United Kingdom between January and February 1763.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

In 1759, his father raised the 85th Regiment of Foot and Pulteney became its lieutenant-colonel. He took part with his regiment in the Capture of Belle Île in February 1761 and moved in November to Portugal. On his return to England in 1763, he died of fever in Madrid, unmarried and childless{{cite book | last = Conolly | first = Matthew Forster | publisher = John C. Orr | title = Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times | url = https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00cono | year = 1866 | location = Cupa, Fife | pages = [https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00cono/page/148 148] }} and was buried in Westminster Abbey two months later.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} His father died only a year later and the titles became extinct.{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | title = A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland | publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley | location = London | year = 1831 | pages = 442 }}

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Howell Gwynne }}

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Edward Cornwallis }}

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Lord Warkworth }}

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