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PULTENEY, WILLIAM, VISCOUNT PULTENEY, only son of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (qv); bapt. 9 Jan 1731; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1740; left 1747; Grand Tour 1748-51; MP Old Sarum 1754-61, Westminster from 1761; Lieut. -Col., 85th Foot 1759; Lord of Bedchamber to George III from 21 Mar 1761; ADC to King from 16 Jan 1763; d. unm. at Madrid, Spain 12 Feb 1763. Buried Islip Chapel, Westminster Abbey.

PULTENEY, JOHN, youngest son of Sir William Pulteney, Kt, MP, Westminster, and Grace, youngest dau. of Sir John Corbet, Bart., Stoke, Shropshire; b.; at school under Busby (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iv, 662); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. (check ) 1677; Under Secretary, Secretary of State’s Office Sep 1689 – Mar 1692; Second Secretary to Lords Justices of Ireland Oct – Dec 1690; acting Clerk of Privy Council (I) 1690-1, Clerk of Privy Council (I) from 1691; Secretary to Lord Lieut. Ireland Sep 1692 – Jul 1693; MP (I) Co. Wexford 1692-3; Secretary to Master-Gen. of Ordnance 1693-1702; Clerk of Deliveries, Ordnance 15 Feb 1701- Jun 1703; MP Hastings 1695-1710; a Commissioner of Trade Apr 1707 – Jun 1711; a Commissioner of Customs 1714-22; Surveyor-Gen. of Crown Lands from 1722; m. Lucy, second dau. of Thomas Colwell, Alderman of London; d. 23 May 1726.

PULTENEY, JOHN, elder son of Rev. Richard Fawcett DD, Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Prebendary of Durham, and Elizabeth Brown; bapt. Grendon, Warwicks. 9 Nov 1766 (IGI); adm. 27 Apr 1778; KS (aged 12) 1779; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1783, matr. 26 Jun 1783, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1783 – void 15 Feb 1787; damages of £7, 000 were awarded against him in May 1802 in suit for crim. con. brought by George Markham (adm. 1769, qv); assumed surname of Pulteney in lieu of Fawcett by royal licence 9 Aug 1813, “from grateful and affectionate regard to the memory of Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath”; m. 8 Aug 1803 Elizabeth Evelyn, divorced wife of George Markham (adm. 1769, qv), and sister of John Sutton (adm. 1779, qv); d. 24 Jun 1849.

PULTENEY, HARRY, brother of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (qv); b. 14 Feb 1686; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1757); Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 25 Mar 1704; Lieut. and Capt., 23 Feb 1709; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards 22 Jul 1715; Second Maj. and Col., 3 Aug 1733; First Maj., 30 Oct 1734; Col., 13th Foot, 5 Apr 1739 – Jun 1766; Brigadier-Gen., 18 Feb 1742; Major-Gen., 3 Jul 1743; Lieut. -Gen., 8 Aug 1747; Gen., 22 Feb 1765; Equerry to George I and George II 20 Nov 1714 – res by 3 Nov 1743; MP Hedon 5 Nov 1722-34, 24 Nov 1739-41, Kingston-upon-Hull 2 May 1744-7; Governor of Hull 1739 - Jun 1766; served in Flanders 1742; inherited estates of his elder brother Lord Bath 1764; d. 26 Oct 1767.

PULTENEY, DANIEL, eldest son of John Pulteney (at school under Busby, qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 26 Sep 1682 (IGI); at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1727/8); Christ Church, Oxford, fellow commoner, matr. 15 Jul 1699, aged 15 (sic); Grand Tour (Netherlands, Germany) 1704-6; Envoy to Denmark 1706-15; a Commissioner of Trade Jul 1717 – Oct 1721; MP Tregony 23 Mar – 10 Oct 1721, Hedon 7 Nov 1721-2, Preston from 1722; a Lord of the Admiralty 10 Oct 1721 – Jun 1725; Clerk of the Privy Council (I) from 1726; an implacable opponent of Sir Robert Walpole; his failure to overthrow Walpole so preyed upon his spirits that it “threw him into an irregularity of drinking that occasioned his death” (Coxe, Walpole, ii, 558-60); gave £50 towards the New Dormitory; m. 26 Dec 1717 Margaret Deering, dau. of Benjamin Tichborne, Tichborne, Hampshire; d. 7 Sep 1731. Buried St. James’s, Westminster, but remains subsequently transferred to South Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

Pulman, Peter Stewart, brother of Frederick George Pulman (qv); b. 23 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (A); left July 1939; RE in WW2 (Capt.); was man. dir. George Pufman & Sons; lives in Mallorca; m. 12 Aug. 1948 Ann Patricia, d. of Victor Arnold-Jones of Shanghai; d. 1996.

Pulman, Michael Paul, brother of Frederick George Pulman (qv); b. 2 June 1926; adm. Sept. 1941 (A); left July 1942; Rifle Brigade 1943-7; a master printer; m. Daphne Alaine, d. of Digby Willoughby Jones MC JP, of Ealing; d. Aug. 1997.

Pulman, Frederick George, son of George Frederick Putman, printer and publisher, of Hampstead, and Evelyn Stewart, d. of Walter Bramall of Brondesbury; b. 4 May 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1937; RAFVR 1940-6; dir. George Pulman & Sons, printers and pub­lishers; m. 12 July 1947 Diana Frances, d. of Lieut.-Cdr Edmund George Burkhardt Coore RN, of Melbourne, Australia; d. 14 Aug. 1977.

PULESTON, ALLEN, son of Gerard Puleston, St. Dionis Backchurch, London, and his second wife Rachel, third dau. of Edward Allen, Finchley, Middlesex; bapt. St. Dionis Backchurch, London 12 Jan 1697/8 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1713; QS 1714; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1718, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1718, scholar 11 Jul 1719, matr. 1718; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1719, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1719 – void by marriage 15 Feb 1720/1; m. 15 Feb 1720/1 Mary Dryden, St. James’s, Westminster; buried St. Margaret, Westminster 1745 (will proved 4 May 1745).