William Paltney , 1st Earl of Bath (March 22, 1684 - July 7, 1764), is an English politician.
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Biography
Descended from a noble Leiceshir family. He graduated from high school in Westminster , in 1701 he went to study at Oxford , where he was especially interested in ancient languages, after graduating from the university he made a traditional grand tour of continental Europe. In 1705 he became a member of the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, from Hedon, became close to Robert Walpole in parliament, in 1712 defending the illegality of his arrest and placement in the Tower ; deputy chair from this town retained without interruption until 1734, belonged to the Whig party, playing an important role in parliament under Queen Anne. In 1710, he inherited 40,000 pounds with an annual income of 500 pounds. From 1714 to 1717, Paltni belonged to the ministry as state secretary of the military department, and since 1715, as chancellor of the treasury , Walpol stood at the head (on July 6, 1716 he was appointed to the Privy Council; he left the ministry in April 1717 with Townsend and Walpole). Walpol’s aspiration to subordinate all of them soon displeased the ambitious Paltney with a friend, and he directed all his efforts to overthrow him, since from 1721, after the collapse of the South Seas, Walpol became the head of the ministry again. Walpole offered him a party , but Paltney refused and in 1723 occupied the minor post of treasurer of the royal court and held it until April 1725. As a result, he remained in opposition to his former friend and did not go to reconciliation with him in 1730, when Walpole again offered him a peerage and the place of Townsend. In 1734, he was elected to parliament from Middlesex for the first time, remained a deputy until he received his peerage.
Paltney had a reputation as a good speaker, while he fought against Walpole with both speeches and articles. Being originally a whig , he joined the leader of Tory Bolingbroke, but the long-term failure of the opposition party "patriots" oppressed him. When the new parliament was convened in the summer of 1741, and in February 1742, Walpole was overthrown, Paltney, in one of his polemical speeches delivered by him, vowed not to accept any post, could not take advantage of this, and refused the post of first lord of the Treasury. Soon he lost his former prominent position, based on the reputation of an independent person: on July 14, 1742, he assumed the title of Count Bath, but with this title showed practically no political activity. Under George III, he joined Tory by Bute, but could not regain his position, although in 1743 he unsuccessfully petitioned to appoint the first Lord of the Treasury, and from February 10 to 12, 1746, he was still at the head of the ministry. He died in London almost in complete obscurity, buried in Westminster Abbey .
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Links
- Pultiden, William // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- This article (section) contains a text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the British Encyclopedia , which has been transferred to the public domain .