Background
Pulteney was the son of John Pulteney (d 1726), Member of Parliament for Hastings and Commissioner of Customs, and Lucy Colville.
Pulteney was the son of John Pulteney (d 1726), Member of Parliament for Hastings and Commissioner of Customs, and Lucy Colville.
He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1699.
He was one of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations between July 1717 and October 1721. He entered Parliament in March 1721 as Member for Tregony in Cornwall. In September he was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he held until 1725.
He was also later appointed Clerk of the Council in Ireland.
He sat as Preston"s Member of Parliament for the remaining nine years of his life. Although a Whig, he detested Robert Walpole.
Their three sons all died in childhood. Daniel Pulteney died on 7 September 1731 at Harefield in Middlesex and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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