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PRYSE, JOHN PUGH, only son of Thomas Pryse (qv); b.; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1769); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1756, aged 17; MP Cardiganshire 1761-8, Merioneth from 1768; adm. Middle Temple 13 Nov 1769; d. unm. 13 Jan 1774.

PRYSE, THOMAS, son of John Pryse, Glanseryn, Montgomeryshire, and Mary, widow of Thomas Davies, Penboyr, and dau. of David Lewis, Dolhaidd, Carmarthenshire; b.; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1724; in under school list 1728; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1732; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jun 1732; MP Cardigan from 1741; of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire; m. Maria Charlotte, dau. of Rowland Pugh MD, Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire; d. 21 May 1745.

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.

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, 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, 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, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF BATH, son of Col. William Pulteney, Misterton, Leics., and his first wife Mary Floyd; nephew of John Pulteney (qv); b. 22 Mar 1684; adm.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1700; Grand Tour (Italy) 1704-5; MP Hedon 1705-34, Middlesex 1734 – 14 Jul 1742; Secretary at War 25 Sep 1714 – 11 Apr 1717; one of the committee of secrecy concerning the peace negotiations Apr 1715; Privy Councillor 16 Jul 1716; one of the “three grand allies”; declined peerage in lieu of office 1721; Cofferer of the Household 28 May 1723 – Apr 1725, dismissed after quarrel with Walpole; alled himself with Bolingbroke and wrote for The Craftsman; joined Wyndham and became a “patriot”; author of pamphlet On the State of the National Debt, 1727; quarrelled with John Hervey, Lord Hervey (qv), with whom he fought a duel in Green Park 25 Jan 1731; leader of the parliamentary opposition to Walpole; struck off the Privy Council 1 Jul 1731; refused to form a ministry on Walpole’s downfall, but entered Lord Wilmington’s Cabinet without office and was readm. to Privy Council 20 Feb 1742; created Earl of Bath 14 Jul 1742; his acceptance of a peerage diminished his political significance; lampooned by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in a series of odes; endeavoured to form an administration at George II’s request, and accepte post of First Lord of the Treasury 10 Feb 1746, but his short-lived ministry only lasted two days, and he never held political office again; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire East Riding 7 Dec 1721 – 15 Jul 1728, Shropshire from 13 Jul 1761; a brilliant parliamentary orator and great debater; a scholar and a versatile and witty writer; gave £50 towards the New Dormitory; m. 27 Dec 1714 Anna Maria, dau. of John Gumley MP, Isleworth, Middlesex, Commissary-Gen. to the Army; d. 7 Jul 1764. Buried Islip Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

PUREFOY-JERVOISE, GEORGE, son of Rev. George Huddlestone Jervoise Purefoy (afterwards Purefoy-Jervoise), Herriard Park, Hampshire, Rector of Shalston, Bucks., and Mary, second dau. of Rev. Wright Hawes, Rector of Shalston, Bucks.; nephew of Tristram Huddlestone Jervoise (qv); b. 10 Apr 1770; adm. 12 Jun 1781; left Aug 1786; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Nov 1787; BA 1791; MA 1794; assumed additional surname of Jervoise 17 Jul 1792; MP Salisbury 17 Feb 1813-8, Hampshire 1820-6; High Sheriff, Hampshire 1830; lic. to m. 1st, 7 Apr 1799 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hall, Preston Candover, Hampshire; m. 2nd, 18 Apr 1837 Anna Maria Selina, eldest dau. of Wadham Locke MP, Rowde Ford, Wilts.; d. 1 Dec 1847.

Raikes, Sir Henry Victor Alpin Mackinnon, only son of Henry St. John Digby Raikes, K.C., C.B.E., of Pimlico, by Annie Lucinda, daughter of Major-Gen. Daniel Henry Mackinnon, of Warwick Square, London; b. Jan. 19, 1901; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (R); left July 1919; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922; called to the bar at the Inner Temple July 2, 1924; M.P. South-East Essex 1931-45; M.P. Wavertree Division of Liverpool 1945-57; Flight­ Lieut. (Legal Branch) R.A.F.V.R. May 29, 1940; resigned June 1, 1942; K.B.E. Jan. 1, 1953; m. Aug. 10, 1940, Audrey Elizabeth, only daughter of A. P. Wilson, of Repton, co. Derby; d. 13 Apr. 1986.

RAM, GEORGE, third son of Sir Abel Ram, Kt, Ramsfort and Clonatin, co. Wexford, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Eleanor, dau. of Stephen Palmer, Dublin; b.; adm.; KS (aged 11) 1687; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Aug 1688, matr. 1691; MA Dublin 1695; LLD 1718; High Sheriff, co. Wexford 1710; MP (I) Newborough from 1713; buried St. Werburgh’s, Dublin 22 Oct 1725.