Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath

As a young woman, Pulteney spent time at Sudborough in Northamptonshire (later endowing a school there as well as in Clewer, Berkshire) where her neighbour was Archibald Alison, to whom she agreed to be a godmother to his son, William.

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 Somerset, in 1792,[1] aged twenty-six.

This was rejected and she was further elevated as Countess of Bath, in the County of Somerset, in 1803,[2] although it is a general rule that, wherever possible, peerage titles should not be duplicated.

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.

Their 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.