William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, 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.
Earl of Bath, 1761
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, c. 1740s
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
Pulteney monument, Westminster Abbey
George II of Great Britain
George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1744
George as a young boy with his mother, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, and his sister, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
Princess Caroline by Godfrey Kneller, 1716
London, c. 1710