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William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (born 1683)
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William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
English politician and peer (1684–1764)
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Secretary at War
Historical English political position
The secretary at war was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. The Secretary at War ran the War Office. After 1794 it was occasionally a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)