an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1710. He studied the law and was called to the Bar in 1682. Pulteney was nominated as deputy-lieutenant of Middlesex. He was then appointed by Lord Shrewsbury as an under-secretary. Pulteney joined the staff of Lord Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and later served him at the Board of Ordnance. Pulteney was first elected as Whig Member of Parliament for Hastings at the 1695 English general election, as a nominee of Lord Sydney (by then Earl of Romney) in his role as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
