Poyntz, William snr, Cannon St, London, upholder (d.1720). Freeman of the Upholders’ Co. and father of William Poyntz jnr. He died in 1720 and is buried at Battersea. His second wife was Jane, daughter of Stephen Monteage, a London merchant. Their grand-daughter, Georgiana Poyntz (1737–1814) married in 1755 John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer of Althorp, Northants. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records; Sir John Maclean, Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz, (1886), pp. 208, 226]