Lord William Powlett Explained
| William Powlett |
| Lord William Powlett |
| More: | no |
| Spouse: | Louisa de Caumont
Anne Egerton |
| Issue: | William Powlett
Charles Powlett
Mary Powlett
Jane Powlett
Henrietta Powlett |
| Noble Family: | Paulet |
| Father: | Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton |
| Mother: | Mary Scrope |
| Birth Date: | 1666 |
| Death Date: | 25 September |
| Death Place: | Hyde Park, London |
Lord William Powlett (baptized 18 August 1666 – 25 September 1729) was an English Member of Parliament.
He was the younger son of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, and his second wife, Mary Scrope.
Career
Lord William held a number of offices, including:
- Freeman, Winchester 1689, Lymington, 1689
- Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, 1689–1729
- Commissioner for assessment, Hampshire and Yorkshire (West Riding), 1689–90
- Captain of militia foot, Winchester, by 1697
- Recorder, Grimsby, 1699–1729
- Justice of the Peace, Hampshire and Lincolnshire, 1699–1729
- Mayor of Lymington, Hampshire, 1701–5, 1724–5, 1728–1729
- Keeper of Rhinefield walk, New Forest, 1718–1729
- Farmer of green-wax fines, 1690–1706
- Teller of the Exchequer, 1714–1729
He served as Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1689 to 1710, for Lymington from 1710 to 1715 and for Winchester from 1715 until his death in 1729. Lord William became Father of the House of Commons in 1724, on the demise of Richard Vaughan, the member for Carmarthen.
Marriages and issue
William Powlett married twice:[1]
- Jane Powlett
- He married as his second wife, Anne Egerton (died 1737) in October 1699, by whom he had one daughter:
Death
He died on 25 September 1729, in his 63rd year, through a fall from his horse when riding in Hyde Park, London. Both his sons sat for various Hampshire boroughs as Whigs under George II.
Sources
- Web site: Bolton, Duke of (E, 1689 - 1794) . Cracroft's Peerage . Cracroftspeerage.co.uk . 22 December 2013.
- Web site: Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton . Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry families with extended lineage . https://web.archive.org/web/20131220162140/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I47378&tree=Nixon . dead . 20 December 2013 . Histfam.familysearch.org . 21 December 2013.
- Web site: Cokayne . George Edward . Gibbs, Vicary . The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant . II . London . St Catherine Press . 1912 . 210 . .
- Web site: The Father of the House . UK Parliament . Parliament.uk . 22 December 2013 . .
- Web site: Helms . M. W. . Watson . Paula . Henning, B. D. . Powlett, (Paulet), Charles I, Lord St. John of Basing (c.1630–99), of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London and Hackwood, Hants. . The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1660-1690 . Historyofparliamentonline.org . 1983 . 21 December 2013 . .
- Web site: Lord William Powlett . The Peerage . Thepeerage.com . 22 December 2013.
- Book: Watson
, Paula
. Henning . B. D. . Powlett, Lord William (1667–1729), of Chilbolton, Hants and Marrick Priory, Yorks. . The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1660-1690 . http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1660-1690/member/powlett-lord-william-1667-1729 . 1983 . Historyofparliamentonline.org . 22 December 2013 .
- Book: Watson . Paula . Wynne . Sonya . Hayton . D. . Cruickshanks . E. . Powlett, Lord William (1666–1729), of St. James’s, Westminster, Mdx . The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690–1715 . http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/powlett-lord-william-1666-1729 . 2002 . Historyofparliamentonline.org . 12 April 2014 . .
External links
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Notes and References
- Web site: Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton. The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. 21 December 2013.
