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BOLTON 215 K.B. 27 Aug. and inst. 2 Dec. 1753. Lieut, of the Tower of London 1754-60; P.C. 22 Dec. 1758; Lord Lieut, of Hants 1758-63; Bearer of the Crown of the Queen Consort at the coronation, 22 Sep. 1761. He d. unm.,(^) having shot himself at his house in Grosvenor Sq., 5, and was bur. 10 July 1765, at Basing, aged 46. Will dat. 4 June 1763 to 3 Oct. 1764, pr. 12 July 1765, and again 29 Apr. 1771. VL 1765 6. Harry (Powlett), Duke of Bolton [1689], Mar- io QUESS OF Winchester [i 55 i], Earl of Wiltshire [i 550], 1794. and Baron Saint John [1559], Premier Marquess, br. and ).,b. 6 Nov. 1720; ed. at Winchester 1728-29. Lieut. Royal Navy 1739, Capt. at the siege of Carthagena () in 1743; Rear Adm. 1756; Vice Adm. 1759; Adm. of the Blue 1770; Admiral of the White, 1775; M.P. (Whig) for Christchurch 1751-1754; for Lymington 1755-61, and for Winchester 1761-65; P.C. 10 Dec. 1766; Governor of the Isle of Wight 1766-70, and 1782-91 ; Vice Admiral of Hants and Dorset 1767; Lord Lieut, of Hants 1782 till his death. He w., istly, 7 May 1752, at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, Mary,() da. of ( — ) MuNN', of Eltham, Kent. She d. at Bath, 31 May, and was bur. 8 June 1764, as '■'■Lady Pallet^' at Eltham. He w., 2ndly, 8 Apr. 1765, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Katharine, yst. sister of James, ist Earl of Lonsdale, da. of Robert Lowther, Governor of Barbados, by Katharine, da. of Sir Joseph Pennington, Bart. He d. 25 Dec. 1794, s.p.m.^i^) at Hackwood, Hants, and was bur. 2 Jan. 1795, ^^ Basing. M.I. At his death the Dukedom of Bolton became extinct, but all the other honours devolved on his distant cousin and h. male, George Powlett, of Amport, Hants. See "Winchester," Marquessate of, cr. 1551, under the 12th Marquess. Will dat. 7 Dec. 1793, P^- ^ J^"- '795 ^"'^ '7 -^"g- 1809. His widow (^) His illegit. da. became, on the death of the last Duke, s.p.m. (in 1794), heiress to Bolton and other considerable estates, being then wife of Thomas Orde, afterwards Orde-Powlett, cr. Baron Bolton in 1797. C') He is not very favourably described by Smollett, being the " Capt. Whiffle " depicted in Roderick Random. He figures in 1778, with a Miss Sparks, as "Admiral Sternpost and Miss Sp . . ks," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in the Toiun and Country Mag., vol. x, p. 289. See N. (jf Q., loth Ser., vol. iv, pp. 344 and 464, on which latter page it is shown why he was called " Old Sternpost." G.E.C. See also Appendix B to the last volume of this work. " A silly, brutal, proud man, yet whose valour was . . . problematical." (H. Walpole, Dec. 1778). V.G. f^) Not Henrietta A'^unn, as usually stated. V.G. ('^) The Duke left three daughters, who as representatives of the Ist Marquess of Winchester, himself a coh. of the Barony of St. John of Basing, are coheirs (as to the third part) of that Barony. One of these d. unm., while the eldest da. (by the 1st wife) was mother of the 6th Earl of Sandwich; and the yst. da. (by the and wife) was mother of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Dukes of Cleveland. See next page, note " a."