Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath
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(Henrietta) Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath (26 December 1766 – 14 July 1808) was a British peeress and heiress.
Early life
Born Henrietta Laura Johnstone in
William
.
Peerage and marriage
Although Pulteney's father never sought political office, he did procure a peerage for her and she was created Baroness of Bath, in the County of
Sir James Murray, 7th Baronet
and he took the additional surname of Pulteney.
Later years
When Lady Bath's father died
intestate in 1805, his personal estate was divided between her and his second wife. Lady Bath inherited two thirds and property in England and America. She died aged 41 just over three years later in Brighton, possibly from consumption and was buried in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey. Her personal estate passed to her cousin, Elizabeth Evelyn Fawcett (daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet and ex-wife of George Markham, Dean of York); she and her husband changed their name to Pulteney. They daughter was Isabelle Pulteney Fawcett married firstly to a Swiss banker of the de Palezieux dit Falconnet family and secondly in 1864 to Nicola Serra Count of Montesantangelo. Her landed estates passed to William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington
. As she had no children, her titles became extinct.
Namesakes
The town of Henrietta, New York, where her father invested in land, was named for her.[3]
The octagonal tower built by Thomas Telford in about 1790 as a summer house at Shrewsbury Castle is called 'Laura's Tower' after her. Telford was engaged by her father to remodel the castle as his Shrewsbury home.[4]
Sources
- ^ "No. 13441". The London Gazette. 17 July 1792. p. 562.
- ^ "No. 15625". The London Gazette. 1 October 1803. p. 1339.
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 155.
- ISBN 978-1-906663-681.
- Rowe, M. J. and McBryde, W. H. - Pulteney (formerly Johnstone), (Henrietta) Laura, suo jure countess of Bath (1766–1808), heiress - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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