POWLETT, Charles (c. 1661-1722) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1661, 1st surv. s. Charles Powlett, styled. Ld. St John (later 5th mq. of Winchester and duke of Bolton), and 2nd w. Mary, illegit. da. of Emmanuel Scrope^†, earl of Sunderland; bro. of Ld. William Powlett^‡. educ. G. Inn 1674; Winchester ?1675; travelled abroad (France) 1675-8. CSP Dom. 1677-8, p. 372. m. (1) 10 July 1679 Margaret (d.1682), da. George Coventry, 3rd Bar. Coventry, s.p.; CSP Dom. 1679-80, p. 197. (2) 8 Feb. 1683 Frances (d.1696), da. of William Ramsden of Byrom, Yorks., 2s. 2da.; (3) bef. 15 Oct. 1697 Henrietta Crofts (d.1730), illegit. da. James Scott, duke of Monmouth, and Eleanor, da. of Sir Robert Needham, 1s. KG 1714. HMC Portland, v. 502. d. 21 Jan. 1722; will 21 Mar. 1719, pr. Feb. 1724. TNA, PROB 11/595.

Offices Held

Ld. chamb. to Mary II 1689–94; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 12. ld. justice [I] 1697–1700; CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 129, 132. commr. for Union 1706; ld. justice 1714, London Gazette, 31 July-3 Aug. 1714. 1720; ld. chamb. 1715 – 17; ld. lt. Ireland 1717 – 19.

Freeman, Lymington 1685, Winchester 1689, HP Commons, 1660–90, iii. 279. Southampton 1697, Dublin 1697, Cork 1698, Kinsale 1698, W. Looe 1700; dep. lt. Hants 1689 – 99; ld. lt. Hants, Dorset 1699 – 1710, 1714 – d.; custos rot. Hants 1699 – 1710, 1715 – d.; warden, New Forest 1699 – 1710, 1714 – d.; v.-adm. Hants and I.o.W. 1692 – 1710, 1714–d.; Add. 61450, f. 199. high steward, Romsey 1697, CSP Dom. 1697, p. 525. Winchester 1699–d.; HP Commons, 1690–1715, ii. 254; London Gazette, 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 1705. recorder, St Ives 1700; HP Commons, 1690–1715, ii. 98. gov. I.o.W. 1707–10. Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 135.

Col. of vol. horse 1690.

Parlimentarian

POWLETT, Charles II, Earl of Wiltshire (c.1661-1722).

PAULET

Likenesses

oil on canvas, after Sir G. Kneller, c.1710, Carisbrooke Castle Museum, I.o.W.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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