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George Paulett (1534-1621) was Bailiff of Jersey multiple times during a period from 1583 to 1611 and was temporary Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.[1][2]
Biography edit
George Paulett was the son of Sir Hugh Paulett, Governor of Jersey, and his wife Philippa Pollard, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard (1465–1540) and Agnes Hext. George's older brother was Sir Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for Mary, Queen of Scots.[3][4]
In 1583, he took over the position of Bailiff for Jersey from Jean Dumaresq. After a few years, in 1586, Dumaresq would resume his role as Bailiff but only for a few months and George Paulet would become Bailiff once more. The position of Bailliff was handed back to Jean Dumaresq in 1591 for a period of five years, as Paulett would serve as Lieutenant-Governor in Guernsey.[5][6][7]
Family edit
Paulett married Elizabeth Perrin (1538–1615), daughter of Edmund Perrin (1494–1552), Seigneur of Rose. They had a daughter:
- Rachel Paulett (1561–1650) married Philippe de Carteret I and had issue;
References edit
- ^ Le Quesne, Charles (1856). A Constitutional History of Jersey. Longmans.
- ^ Tupper, Ferdinand Brock (1876). The History of Guernsey and Its Bailiwick: With Occasional Notices of Jersey. Le Lievre.
- ^ Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760. (1756). The peerage of England; : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons, or creations: their descents and collateral lines: their births, marriages, and issues: famous actions both in war and peace: religious and charitable donations: deaths, places of burials, monuments, epitaphs: and many valuable memoirs never before printed. Also their paternal coats of arms, crests, supporters and motto's, curiously engraven on copper plates. Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson, T. Wotton and E. Withers, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Manby, J. and J. Rivington, H.S. Cox, W. Johnston, P. Davey and B. Law. OCLC 228758376.
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- ^ Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of Elizabeth Preserved in Her Majestyʼs Public Record Office Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green: Addenda 1566-1579. Longman & Company and Trubner & Company. 1871.
- ^ Stephen, Sir Leslie; Lee, Sir Sidney (1895). Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, & Company.