ORDE POWLETT, Hon. William Powlett (1782-1850), of Hackwood Park, Hants.

Orde Powlett succeeded to his father’s peerage within months of his election for Yarmouth on the interest of Sir Henry Worsley Holmes, who expected to take a giant’s share of the Isle of Wight patronage on Lord Bolton’s death.See YARMOUTH (Isle of Wight). He left no mark in the House, where he would have been expected to support the Portland ministry. He was, in any case, a shy, if not an eccentric, man.Hants RO, Bolton mss 626 C/1. He died 13 July 1850.