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BATH 27 at Eton, and at Balliol Coll. Oxford; B.A. 1886; M.A. 1888; M.P. (Con- servative) for Frome div. of Somerset 1886-92, and 1895-96. He m., 19 Apr. 1890, at Witley, co. Worcester, Violet Caroline, da. of Sir Charles MoRDAUNT, loth Bart., being only child of his ist wife, Harriet Sarah, da. of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, 7th Bart. [S.]. [John Alexander Thynne, styled Viscount Weymouth, ist s. and h. ap., b. 29 Nov. 1895.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 22,672 acres in co. Monaghan (annual value ;^i9,56i); 19,984 acres in Wilts (;^29,325); 8,212 acres in Somerset (;/^ 13,402); 3,508 acres in Salop (^{^4,1 81); 699 acres in co. Hereford (^^1,052), and 409 in Sussex (;^495). Total 55,574 acres, valued at £6%,oi^ a year. Principal Residence. — Longleat, near Warminster, Wilts. BARONY. I. Henrietta Laura Pulteney (yor»2fr/y Johnstone), I spinster, only da. and h. of William Pulteney (^formerly '"*" Johnstone), afterwards [1794] Sir William P., Bart. FART DOM l-S-]> by Frances, da. and eventually sole h. of Daniel Pulteney (who was s. and h. of John P., next br. to XI. 1803 William P., the father of William Pulteney, cr., in 1742, to Earl of Bath, as afsd.), was b. 16 Dec. 1766, and bap. 1808. 29 Jan. 1767, at St. James's, Westm. Having sue. her mother, on i June 1782, in the Pulteney estates, she was cr., 26 July 1 792, BARONESS OF BATH,(^) Somerset, with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body,() and, on 26 Oct. 1803, was cr. COUNTESS OF BATH, Somerset, with a similar rem. of that Earldom. She m. (spec. lie. at Fac. off.), 24 July 1794, at Bath House, Piccadilly, St. Geo., Han. Sq., her cousin. Gen. the Rt. Hon. Sir James Murray, afterwards Murray-Pulteney, Bart. [S.], Col. of the i8th Foot, sometime Secretary at War, who on his marriage (when he was aged 30 and upwards and a bachelor) assumed the additional surname of Pulteney. The Count- ess d. s.p., at Brighton 14, and was bur. 28 July 1808, from her house in Piccadilly, in the South Cloister of Westm. Abbey, aged 41, when her (*) Her descent, shewing her cousinship to the Earl of Bath, is set forth in the patent. () Upon this creation a motion was made in the House of Lords of a reference to the Committee for Privileges, to report as to " whether, when any title of Honour had been conferred on any person by letters patent under the great seal to be holden in or with any given rank of Peerage, the same specifick individual title can be conferred on another person to be holden in or with the same or any other rank of Peerage during the subsistence of the limitations of such first grant." This motion was negatived as well as another for an address to the Crown representing that the title of "Bath'" being vested elsewhere "the said last grant [1792] is and can be of no effect." Protests against these two resolutions were signed by the Lords Radnor and Leicester. — Lords 'Journals, vol. xxxix, pp. 561-564.