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BOLTON. 373 the rrince of Wales, 1714. Gov. of Milford Haven and Vice-Admiral of South Wales, 1715 ; Col. of the Horse Guards (lUue), 1 717-1 73a ; Major-Gen., 173'J ; Lieut. Gen., 1745. On IS April 1717 he was mud. to Pari v.]>. as a Baron the writ (which ■was doubtless mtnnt to have been in Lin Father's Barony of Stint John) Wing (in error) directed " Curolo J'ttwhl tic Billing, Chi:," which, accordingly, constituted a nets Peerage and created him "LOUD PAWLET BE BASING-. ' (») He was Lord Usui, of Hants and Dorset, and Warden of the New Forest, 1722-1738, and again Lord Lieut, of Hants, and Warden of the New Forest, 1742, High Steward of Winchester. Elected K.G. 10 Oct., ami hist. 13 Nov. 1722. Constable of the Tower of London, .c., Hay 1725 to Nov. 1720. P.C. 1728. One of the Lords Justices of the Realm, 1 June 1725 to 3 Jany. 1720, and again 1 Stay to 31 Aug. 1745. Gov. of the Isle of Wight, 1726-1788, and again 1742, Lord Lieut, of c'J. Glamorgan, 1729. t'ajit. of the Gent. Pensioners, 1740-1712. Having opposed the Court measures he was, ill 1733, deprived of all his places, to man} - of which (as above mentioned) he was Bottle seven years or so subsequently restored. In Nov. 17j5 he raised and commanded a Keg. of Foot against the Scotch insurgents, being then Lieut, Gen. in the Army. Hi' was well known as one of the Gallants of the period. He V*. firstly ill 1713' Anne, da. ami h. of John (V.lCOlUJf), 3rd F.UII, OK C.uiURltY [L] by his 2nd wile Anno, da. of ( leprge (Savii.i.k), Majiqukss ok Halifax. She if. s.p. 20 Sep. 1751. Her will J*. June ,752. He >a. see.'Udlv 'il Oct. following, at Ais in Provence, Lavinia da, of [ — | 1'esWICK (said to have been a Lieut. ltN.) which Lady was usually known by the uame of Launia Fkstox.iO) He (/. at Tunbridge Wells 20 Aug. 1754, aged li!', s.j) legit., when the Barony af Pawl el tic Bating became extinct. He was 4«r. At b.i ing. His will dat. 0 July 1713, pr. 26 Aug. 175 I. His widow d. at West Combe Park, Kent, 24 Janv. and was l.i r. 3 Feb. 1700, aged about 52, at Greenwich. Her will dat. 0 Dec. 17511, pr. 7 Feb. 1760. (") [The following note on the Mibjiet of this Barony occurs in the handwriting of the late Mr. llargravc, the eminent counsel, in his copy of Edtnondson'a Peerage in the liiitish Mu.-cnin. "What follows was laid before me as the copy of the memorandum by Speaker Onslow, concerning the summons of sir Charles Pawlett as Lord St, John of Basing. "'Charles, afterwards Duke of Bolton, was in 1717 Called up to the House <;f Pcere by Writ, by the title of Lord Basing. A'ote — It proved to be a new creation by, really, a mistake of the name of the father's Barony to which he was intended to have been called up. The father's title was St. John of Casing, and though this was known to their Lordships in their private capacity, yet the Writ being complete ami legal, they, as a court, Considered it was a Writ of fresh creation, and he was placed the lowest Baron, and thereby got a Barony in fee.' This memorandum is confirmed by the entry ill the Journal of the Lords, 0 May 1717. — F. H." The entry in the Journals notices his introduction into the House, recites his Writ, and adds that, after taking the oaths, "he was placed on the lower end of the Barons' bench." — Lord*' Journals, vol. xx, p. 410. A similar mistake, though not with the same result, occurred in 1S33, upon the summons to the Upper House of Francis Russell, Esq., eldest son of the Duke of Bedford. He was summoned as Francis Russell of Streatliam, although the Barouy in which he was intended to have been summoned, and in which he tool; his seat, was Rowland of Streatham.] See " Cotirthope," tub. " Pawlet of Basing," and see also ante, p. 302, note "bj" si'f. " Bedkohd. " ( b ) Her mother, shortly after her birth, had m. Mr. Fenton, who kept a coffee- house at Charing tio.-s, and gave the child his name. She appeared Brst on the stage, when about IS, as " Mouinua, " in "The Orphan," in 1720; and two years later in " The Beggar's Opera" in hei celebrated character of "Polly Peaclmm." Her picture, as such, by Hogarth (1728) was purchased by the Nat. Gallery for fcOO guineas at the sale of the Leigh Court pictures in June 11*84. There was, however, another such picture exhibited at the South Kensington Museum in 1S07. She acted but 02 times as " Polly Pcachaui," when she was finally removed from the stage by the Duke of Bolton, who (as alhnh d to in a letter by Swift, dat. S July 1 726) settled i'400 a year on her, and with whom for 23 years she lived as his mistress, being by him mother of three sons, born before marriage, all called "Powlett"