Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

The 3rd Duke of Bolton.

Lieutenant-General Charles Powlett (sometimes spelled Paulet), 3rd Duke of Bolton KG PC (3 September 1685 – 26 August 1754) was a British nobleman and politician.

Paulet was the eldest son of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton and Frances Ramsden, born in 1685 at Chawton. From 1685 until 1699 he was styled Earl of Wiltshire^{[dubious – discuss]}, and from 1699 until his accession, Marquess of Winchester.^[1]

He was Whig MP for Lymington from 1705 to 1708, Hampshire from 1708 to 1710 and Carmarthenshire from 1715 to 1717. In 1739, he became a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, an orphanage for abandoned children.

On 21 July 1713, he married Lady Anne Vaughan, a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Carbery. The marriage was not a happy one, and there were no children. In 1728, he began a long-standing affair with the English actress, Lavinia Fenton. Lady Anne died in 1751 and the Duke married Lavinia Fenton on 20 October 1751 at Aachen. She had already born him three illegitimate sons: Charles, Percy, and Horatio Armand Powlett.

The third Duke of Bolton died in 1754, aged 68, at Royal Tunbridge Wells and was buried at Basing.

See also

List of deserters from James II to William of Orange

Parliament of England
Preceded by Thomas Dore Paul Burrard	Member of Parliament for Lymington 1705 – 1707 With: Paul Burrard	Succeeded by Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Parliament of England	Member of Parliament for Lymington 1707 – 1708 With: Paul Burrard	Succeeded by Paul Burrard Richard Chaundler
Preceded by Thomas Jervoise Richard Chaundler	Member of Parliament for Hampshire 1708 – 1710 With: Viscount Woodstock 1708–1709 Thomas Jervoise 1709–1710	Succeeded by George Pitt Sir Simeon Stewart, Bt
Preceded by Sir Thomas Powell, Bt	Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire 1715 – 1717	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Stepney, Bt
Military offices
Preceded by The Duke of Argyll	Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards 1717–1733	Succeeded by The Duke of Argyll
New regiment	Colonel of The Duke of Bolton's Regiment of Foot 1745–1746	Regiment disbanded
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Carbery	Custos Rotulorum of Carmarthenshire 1714–1735	Succeeded by Sir Nicholas Williams, Bt
Preceded by Sir Thomas Mansel, Bt	Vice-Admiral of South Wales 1715–1754	Vacant
Preceded by The Duke of Bolton	Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1722–1733	Succeeded by The Earl of Shaftesbury
	Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1722–1733	Succeeded by The Viscount Lymington
Preceded by The Earl of Lincoln	Constable of the Tower of London Lord Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets 1725–1726	Succeeded by The Viscount Lonsdale
Preceded by The Earl Cadogan	Governor of the Isle of Wight 1726–1733	Succeeded by The Duke of Montagu
Vacant Title last held by The Earl of Pembroke	Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan 1729–1754	Succeeded by The Earl of Plymouth
Preceded by The Earl of Pembroke	Custos Rotulorum of Glamorgan 1728–1754
Preceded by The Duke of Montagu	Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners 1740–1742	Succeeded by The Lord Bathurst
Preceded by George Trenchard	Vice-Admiral of Dorset 1742 – 1754	Vacant Title next held by The Duke of Bolton
Preceded by The Viscount Lymington	Vice-Admiral and Governor of the Isle of Wight 1742–1746	Succeeded by The Earl of Portsmouth
	Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Hampshire 1742–1754	Succeeded by The Duke of Bolton
Peerage of England
Preceded by Charles Paulet	Duke of Bolton 1722–1754	Succeeded by Harry Powlett
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Baron Pawlet de Basing 1717–1754	Extinct

1. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 45, p.155. Oxford University Press, 2004

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Name	Bolton, Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke Of
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Date of birth	3 September 1685
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Date of death	26 August 1754
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