William Pulteney, Viscount Pulteney (9 January 1731 – 12 February 1763) was a British Whig politician and soldier.
He was the only son of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath and his wife Anna Maria Gumley, daughter of John Gumley.[1] Pulteney was educated at Westminster School from 1740 to 1747 and began his Grand Tour in the following year.[1] He traveled with John Douglas first to Leipzig, met his parents in Paris in 1749 and went then to Turin.[1]
In 1754, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting for Old Sarum until 1761.[2] Subsequently, he represented Westminster as Member of Parliament (MP) until his death in 1763.[3] Pulteney was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber in 1760[1] and served as Aide-de-Camp to King George III of the United Kingdom between January and February 1763.
In 1759, his father raised the 85th Regiment of Foot and Pulteney became its lieutenant-colonel.[1] He took part with his regiment in the Capture of Belle Île in February 1761 and moved in November to Portugal.[1] On his return to England in 1763, he died of fever in Madrid, unmarried and childless[4] and was buried in Westminster Abbey two months later. His father died only a year later and the titles became extinct.[5]