William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

The Earl of Bath
Earl of Bath, 1761
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Disputed
In office
10 February 1746 – 12 February 1746
MonarchGeorge II
Preceded byHenry Pelham
Succeeded byHenry Pelham
Secretary at War
In office
1714–1717
MonarchGeorge I
Preceded byFrancis Gwyn
Succeeded byJames Craggs the Younger
Personal details
Born
William Pulteney

(1684-03-22)22 March 1684
Leicestershire, England
Died7 July 1764(1764-07-07) (aged 80)
Resting placeWestminster Abbey
Political partyWhig
Spouse
Anna Maria Gumley
(m. 1714; died 1758)
ChildrenWilliam Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
OccupationPolitician
CabinetShort-lived ministry
Arms of Pulteney: Argent, a fess dancettée gules in chief three leopard's faces sable[citation needed]

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, PC (22 March 1684 – 7 July 1764) was an English Whig politician and peer who sat in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1742 when he was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Bath by George II of Great Britain. He is sometimes represented as having served as First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister of Great Britain as part of the short-lived ministry in 1746, although most modern sources do not consider him to have held the office.