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    Earl Poulett (pronounced "Paulett") was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1706 for John Poulett, 4th Baron Poulett. The Poulett family...
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    John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett KG (c. 1668 – 28 May 1743) was an English peer. Poulett was the son of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett and his second wife...
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    William John Lydston Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett (11 September 1883 – 11 July 1918) was an English peer and British Army officer. Educated at Cheltenham...
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    William Henry Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett (22 September 1827 – 22 January 1899) was an English peer, landowner, army officer, and racehorse owner. In the...
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  • George Amias FitzWarrine Poulett, 8th Earl Poulett (23 June 1909 – 1 March 1973) was an English peer and landowner, a member of the House of Lords for...
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  • (1711–1785), fourth son of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, was a British Member of Parliament George Poulett, 8th Earl Poulett (1909–1973), English peer, landowner...
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    Colonel John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (5 July 1783 – 1864), styled Viscount Hinton from 1788 to 1819, was an English peer and militia officer. Educated...
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    embodied for fulltime service, and commanded it in the West Country for Earl Poulett, the colonel, who was also Lord Lieutenant of Somerset. However, North...
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    John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (10 December 1708 – 5 November 1764), styled Viscount Hinton until 1743 was an English peer. Poulett was the son of John...
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    Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union...
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  • Baron Poulett, (1615–1665), English peer and Member of Parliament John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett (c. 1641–1679), English peer John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett...
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    Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett (18 May 1710 – 14 April 1788), styled The Honourable Vere Poulett until 1764, was an English peer. Poulett was the son of...
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    Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and...
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    John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett, KT (3 April 1756 – 14 January 1819), styled Viscount Hinton between 1764 and 1788, was a British peer and militia officer...
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    Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674) was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief...
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    Their daughter, Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett. The younger Philip became notorious as "the infamous Earl", due to his frequent bouts of homicidal...
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  • Honourable Vere Poulett (May 1761-15 March 1812), was a British soldier and politician. Poulett was a younger son of Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett, and Mary...
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    Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, KG, PC (15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712) was an English Tory politician and peer. He was a Privy Councillor and...
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  • William Poulett may refer to: William Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett (1827–1899), English peer, landowner, army officer, and racehorse owner William Poulett, 7th...
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    of the New Testament. In 1608, he went to Scotland with George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar to arrange for a union between the churches of England and Scotland...
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  • "Mimi" Forde Pigott and the Earl of Suffolk (1934) Oriel Ross and the 8th Earl Poulett (1935) Virginia Cherrill and Earl of Jersey (1937) Sylvia Ashley...
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    in Devon, together with his wife Catherine Poulett (1706-1758), a daughter of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett. It was completed by his son John Parker,...
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  • origin. Another early example of a surname being used as a title is Earl Poulett (1706). Modern life peers do not generally own large estates, from which...
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    Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham, GCB, PC (13 September 1799 – 19 September 1841) was a British businessman, politician, diplomat and the first...
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  • April 1751 – 5 January 1771 Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett 6 February 1771 – 14 April 1788 Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue 21 May 1788 – 1839, of Castle...
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    Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 – 19 April 1608) was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin...
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    Sylvia Storey (category Poulett family)
    Countess Poulett (born Sylvia Lillian Storey; 4 October 1889 – 20 July 1947) was a British actress and dancer, a Gaiety Girl who married an Earl and became...
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  • Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (8 May 1702 – 11 August 1710) Commission of the Treasury (11 August 1710 – 30 May 1711) John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (First...
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    married secondly Lady Mary Poulett, daughter of John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett, on 9 August 1821. They had three children: Poulett George Henry Somerset (1822–1875)...
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    deposed during the Glorious Revolution. Rewarded by William III with the title Earl of Marlborough, persistent charges of Jacobitism led to his fall from office...
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