James Bulteel (died 1757)


James Bulteel of Tavistock in Devon was an English Member of Parliament.
He was the 2nd son of Samuel Bulteel of Tavistock and was educated at the Inner Temple from 1694.
The pedigree of Bulteel printed in Burke's Landed Gentry commences with Samuel Bulteel of Tavistock in Devon, the father of James Bulteel of Tavistock. The Bulteels were Huguenot refugees from France. However the pedigree given by Prince begins five generations earlier with James Bulteel of Tournai in Hainault. Certainly there is a familial connection with John Bulteel of Westminster, a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in Cornwall, from 1661 to 1669 and between c.1658 and 1667 Secretary to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor to King Charles II.
He was a Member of Parliament for Tavistock 1703-08 and 1711–15.
In 1709 he inherited the manor of Flete, Devon from Richard Hele.
In 1718 he married Mary Crocker, daughter and heiress of Courtenay Crocker, of Lyneham, Yealmpton, inheriting Lyneham in 1740. With Mary he had two sons and four daughters, including: