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Lord Nassau Powlett (23 June 1698 – 24 August 1741) was an English army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1734 and in 1741.
Early life
Powlett was the only son of Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke of Bolton by his third wife Henrietta Crofts. His father served, among other roles, as Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King George I. There were no children from his father's first marriage to Hon. Margaret Coventry (daughter of the 3rd Baron Coventry), but from his second marriage to Frances Ramsden (a daughter of William Ramsden), his elder half-siblings included Lady Frances Powlett (wife of John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt), Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, and Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton.
His maternal grandparents were Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, and Lady Mary Scrope (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Sunderland). His mother was the natural daughter of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (illegitimate son of Charles II of England and his mistress Lucy Walter), by his mistress Eleanor Needham.
Career
He joined the army and was a cornet in the 12th Dragoons in 1715, captain in the 6th Dragoon Guards in 1718 and in the Royal Horse Guards in 1721. Powlett served as mayor of Lymington in 1723 and 1730.
He was returned as Member of Parliament for Hampshire in a by-election on 22 June 1720 and held the seat until the 1727 general election. In 1725, he became one of the founder knights of the Order of the Bath. He was returned as MP for Lymington in 1727 and held the seat until 1734 when he did not stand again. He regained his seat at Lymington in the 1741 general election but died soon after on 24 August.
Personal life
In December 1731, he married Lady Isabella Tufton (d. 1764), the daughter and coheiress of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and Lady Catharine Cavendish (daughter of the 2nd Duke of Newcastle). Together, they were the parents of one child, a daughter:
Isabella Paulet (d. 1821), who married John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont in 1765.
Lord Nassau died on 24 August 1741. After his death, she married Sir Francis Blake Delaval before her death on 10 January 1764.
References
External links
Paulet genealogy