JOHN, SECOND EARL POULETT, [WAS called up by writ to the house of peers, Jan. 17, 1734, by the title of lord Poulett, baron of Hinton St. George, and was appointed one of the lords of his majesty's bedchamber, which honour he resigned in 1755. On March 21, 1743, he was constituted lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the county of Somerset. In May following he succeeded his father in honours and estate as second earl Poulett. He was likewise colonel of the first battalion of Somersetshire militia, and recorder of Bridgewater. Dying a bachelor in Nov. 1764, the earldom, &c. devolved on his brother Vere, father to the present earl. His lordship is said to have published the substance of a motion made by him in the house of lords, and several papers relating to the militia of Great Britain in 1758; but I have not been enabled to state their titles, or particularize their contents.] • Collins's and Debrett's Peerage, and Gentleman's Mag. vol. xxxiv. p. 545. |