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George Amias FitzWarrine Poulett, 8th Earl Poulett (23 June 1909 – 1 March 1973) was an English peer and landowner, a member of the
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for more than forty years, and the last
Earl Poulett Earl Poulett ''(pronounced "Paulett")'' was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1706 for John Poulett, 4th Baron Poulett. The Poulett family descended from Sir Anthony Paulet, son of Sir Amias Paulet, who served as Governor of ...
. Educated at
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,"POULETT, 8th Earl"
in ''Who Was Who'', online edition by Oxford University Press, 2014, accessed 3 August 2016 (subscription site)
he lived at
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,
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,
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, the centre of a large estate inherited from his father,
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, in 1918. His mother was the former
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, a Gaiety girl. He was a pupil apprentice as a mechanical engineer at the GWR Locomotive Works,
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, and at the Signal Factory, Reading. In 1940–41 he was technical assistant to the chief mechanical engineer at Woolwich Arsenal, then from 1941 to 1943 an assistant to the Director of Ordnance Factories (Small Arms). He became an Associate of the Institute of Railway Signal Engineers and of the Institute of British Engineers. He married
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on 21 June 1935, they were divorced in 1941; in 1941, he married secondly Olga Lorraine Lawrence, of Svendborg, Denmark, but she died in 1961; in 1968, he married thirdly Margaret Christine Ball. He had no children. In 1968 he sold the Hinton estate and settled with his last wife in
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. On his death in 1973, all his titles became extinct.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poulett, George Amias FitzWarrine 1909 births 1973 deaths People educated at Eton College 8 George, 8th Earl 20th-century English nobility