Comments: Dau. of John Gumley of Isleworth, Commissary Gen. to Army, by Susan White, a London merchant's daughter.
She inherited Gumley House, described in Aungier's 'Isleworth', 1840, p228.
Steele wrote poem 'The Looking Glass' (attributed to Pope) about her:
"Far other carriage graced her virgin life,
But charming Gumley's lost in Pulteney's wife."
Lord Hervey described her as of:
"low birth, lower mind, and the lowest manners."
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams calls her "Bath's ennobled doxy" and says of Pulteney's taking his peerage that he:
"trucked the fairest fame
For a right honourable name
To call his vixen by."
------
Of her sister-in-law & brother:
Mrs Gumley was the wife of Lt Colonel Samuel Gumley, a wealthy member of the London Methodist Society, and brother-in-law to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. She was a particular friend of Charles and Sarah Wesley. Source: The Works of John Wesley (1982), Volume 26, p.334, edited by Dr Frank Baker
Spouse: William Pulteney (Married 27-Dec-1714)
Children: William Pulteney, Francis Pulteney
Married at Isleworth, he aged 26, her 17.
Anna's Heritage
Parents:
Siblings: