lawfully fathered by its mother's husband. The facts and outcome heavily contrast with the allegedly summons-entitled Earls of Banbury (before the House of Lords Act 1999) where the paternity evidence was no mention of the title-inheriting sons in a will, so that family no longer received any summons to the House. In 1869, while he was known as Viscount Hinton, W. T. T. Poulett married Lydia Ann Shippy (aka Anne Sheppey) and had had one son, William Henry George Poulett (born 1 April 1870). In a fortunate turn of events, in 1901 Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, the widow of a distant kinsman of the 6th Earl's, left W. H. G. Poulett a bequest of £5,000 in her Will, and he became a tea-planter in Ceylon. Barons Poulett (1627) John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (1585–1649) John Poulett, 2nd Baron Poulett (1615–1665) John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett (1641–1679) John Poulett, 4th Baron Poulett (1663–1743) (created Earl Poulett in 1706) Earls Poulett (1706) John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (1663–1743) John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (1708–1764) Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett (1710–1788) John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett (1756–1819) John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783–1864) William Henry Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett (1827–1899) William John Lydston Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett (1883–1918) George Amias Fitzwarrine Poulett, 8th Earl Poulett (1909–1973) Arms The arms of the head of the Poulett family are blazoned Sable, three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or. Notes References Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1968 edition) Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of England Noble titles created in 1706