# Lord William Powlett

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 the independent company of Winchester Militia 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:
* His first wife was Louisa, daughter of Armand-Nompar de Caumont, Marquis de Montpouillon, and granddaughter of Henri-Nompar de Caumont, 3rd Duc de La Force, by whom he had two sons and two daughters:
   * William Powlett, c. 1693 – February 1757, married Lady Annabella Bennet, daughter of :Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville and had issue
   * Maj. Gen. Sir Charles Armand Powlett, died 1751
   * Mary Powlett (died 15 August 1718), married on 25 June 1714 Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Rosse
   * Jane Powlett
* He married as his second wife, Anne Egerton (died 1737) in October 1699, by whom he had one daughter:
   * Henrietta Powlett (died 1755), married William Townshend (died 1738)

## 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.

## Footnotes

* 1 2 Watson & Wynne 2002.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Watson 1983.
* ↑ Col George Jackson Hay, An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force), London: United Service Gazette, 1905/Ray Westlake Military Books, 1987, ISBN 0-9508530-7-0/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78331171-2, p. 129.
* ↑ The Father of the House, p. 9.
* 1 2 3 "Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

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* Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). "The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant". London: St Catherine Press. p. 210.
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* Helms, M. W.; Watson, Paula (1983). Henning, B. D. (ed.). "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. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
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* Watson, Paula (1983). "Powlett, Lord William (1667–1729), of Chilbolton, Hants and Marrick Priory, Yorks.". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1660-1690. Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
* Watson, Paula; Wynne, Sonya (2002). "Powlett, Lord William (1666–1729), of St. James's, Westminster, Mdx". In Hayton, D.; Cruickshanks, E. (eds.). The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690–1715. Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 12 April 2014.