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22 BATH OF Nassau, by Frances Aersen van Sommelsdyck,(^) da. of Cornelius, Lord of Sommelsdyck in Holland. She d. in childbed, 30 Jan. 169 1/2. He d. in St. James's, (having shot himself, () within two weeks of his father's death), 4 Sep. 1 701 , aged 40. Both were bur. the same day at Kilk- hampton.('=) Admon. 10 Sep. 1701, 16 Mar. 1707/8,31 Jan. 171 1/2, and 26 Feb. 1719/20. IX. 1 701 (Sep.) 3. William Henry (Granville), Earl of Bath, to Viscount Granville of Lansdown, and Baron Gran- 171 1. viLLE OF KiLKHAMPTON AND BiDEFORD, Only child and h. by the 2nd wife. He, who was b. 30 Jan. 1 69 1 /2, d. unm., at his grandmother Lady Auverquerque's lodgings in Whitehall, of the small pox 17, and was bur. 24 May 171 1, in Westm. Abbey, in his 20th year, when all his Peerages became extinct, (f') Will dat. 3 Apr. 17 10, intending to travel beyond the seas, pr. 24 May 17 11, by Frances, Dowager Countess of Nassau, the grandmother and universal legatee. i.e. Bath, Earldom, see Albemarle, Dukedom, cr. 1721 by the titular James III (vol. i, p. 91); Lansdown of Bideford, Barony; and vol. i. Appendix F. X. 1742 I. William Pulteney, s. and h. of Col. William P., to of Misterton, co. Leicester, (who was s. and h. of Sir 1764. William P., of the same, sometime M.P. for Westm.), by his 1st wife, Mary, da. of ( — ) Floyd,(') was b. Apr. 1684; ed. at Westm., matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 31 Oct. 1700; entered Pari, at an early age, being M.P. (Whig) for Hedon, 1705-34; and for Middlesex, 1734-42; was Secretary at War 17 14-17; sue. his father in 1715; P.C. 6 July 1716 till I July 1731, restored 20 Feb. 1741/2; Lord Lieut, of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1721-28; Cofferer of the House- hold, 1723-25. Taking a leading part against the measures of Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister, he was by the King himself struck off the list of Privy Councillors, i July 1731, to which he was restored, 20 Feb. 1742 (after the resignation of office by Walpole). Shortly afterwards, on 14 July (*) She so describes herself in her will and codicil dat. 10 Sep. and 18 Oct. 1712, in which she styles her husband "Earl van Nassau, Lord van Auverquerque." See note to her burial, 27 Jan. 1719/20 (aged 82), in Col. Chester's Registers of Westm. Abbey. C") " The Earl of Bath was found dead in his chair in his bedchamber wounded in his head, with a brace of pistols by him, one discharged; tis said he had been melancholy for some time past." (Luttrell, Diary, 4 Sep. 1701). V.G. if) On this occasion it was said (the young Earl attending the funeral of his two predecessors) that there were " three Earls of Bath together above ground." {^) The estates passed to his three aunts, viz. (i) Jane, who m. Sir William Leveson-Gower, (2) Catharine, who m. Craven Peyton, and (3) Grace, who m. George (Carteret), ist Lord Carteret, and who herself vfds, in 1715, cr. Countess Granville, being ancestress of Thomas (Thynne), Viscount Weymouth, who was cr. Marquess of Bath, 1789. (') Ex inform, of the Earl of Bath, given to Collins Peerage, 1756.