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BOLTON 213 and Warden of the New Forest, 1722-33, and again Lord Lieut, of Hants and Warden of the New Forest, 1 742 till his death. High Steward of Win- chester. Norn. K.G. 10 Oct., and inst. 13 Nov. 1722. Constable of the Tower of London, i^c. May 1725 to Sep. 1726. P.C. i June 1725. One of the Lords Justices of the Realm, i June 1725 to 3 Jan. 1726, and again 4 May to 31 Aug. I745.(^) Gov. of the Isle of Wight, 1726-33, and 1742-46. Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners, 1740-42. Having opposed the Court measures he was, in 1733, deprived of all his places, to many of which (as above mentioned) he was after some seven years or so restored. In Nov. 1745 he raised and commanded a Reg. of Foot against the Jacobite Rising, being then given a commission as Lieut. Gen. in the Army. He m., 21 July 1713 (marr. settl. 20 and 21 July), Anne,() da. and h. of John (Vaughan), 3rd Earl of Carberv [I.],C) by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of George (Savile), Marquess of Halifax. She d. s.p., 20 Sep. 175 !.() Will, directing her burial to be at Llandilwan, near Golden Grove, co. Carmarthen, pr. June 1752. He m., 2ndly, 20 Oct. following, at Aix in Provence, Lavinia, da. of ( — ■ ) Beswick. (said to have been a Lieut. R.N.), which lady was usually known by the name of Lavinia Fenton.(^) He A similar mistake, though not with the same result, occurred in 1833, 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 Streatham, although the Barony to which he was intended to have been summoned, and in which he took his seat, was Howland of Streatham]. See Courthope, sub " Pawlet of Basing," and see also ante^ p. 86, note "a," sub "Bedford," and vol. i. Appendix G. (*) See ante, p. 211, note " e." C") " There is such running after my Lord Carbery's rich daughter as you never saw. My Lord Lumley makes the greatest bustle. . . My Lord Winchester and Lord Hertford are also in pursuit." (27 Feb. 1713). "My Lord Winchester is to be the happy man that marries my Lady Ann Vaughan. They say it is concluded." (31 Mar. 1713. Letters of Lord Berkeley of Stratton). V.G. {^) They separated soon after their marriage, and Lady Mary Montagu writes, 24 Nov. 1 7 14, "My Lord made her an early confession of his aversion." V.G. (^) "Educated in solitude with some choice books, by a saint-like governess: crammed with virtue and good qualities, she thought it impossible not to find gratitude, though she failed to give passion; and upon this threw away her estate, was despised by her husband, and laughed at by the public." (Lady M. Montagu, 8 Dec. 1754). V.G. (*■) Her mother, shortly after her birth, had m. Mr. Fenton, who kept a coffee- house at Charing Cross, and gave the child his name. She appeared first on the stage, when about 18, as "Monimia" in "The Orphan," in 1726; and two years later in "The Beggar's Opera" in her celebrated character of "Polly Peacham." Her picture, as such, by Hogarth (1728) was purchased by the Nat. Gallery for 800 guineas at the sale of the Leigh Court pictures in June 1884. There was, however, another such picture exhibited at the South Kensington Museum in 1867. She acted but 62 times as " Polly Peacham," when she was finally removed from the stage by the Duke of Bolton, who (as stated in a letter by Swift, dat. 8 July 1728) settled ;^400 a year on her, and with whom for 23 years she lived as his mistress, being by him mother of three sons, Charles, Percy, and Horatio Armand, born before marriage, all called "Powlett." For a list of peers who have married singers, dancers or actresses, see Appendix C in the last vol. of this work.