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Pulteney, Daniel, 1682-1731
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1682-1731
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.