Lord William Powlett

Lord William Powlett 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:

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.

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:
He married as his second wife, Anne Egerton in October 1699, by whom he had one daughter:

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.