Powlett, Charles (1753-1806)

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Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 24) at TRINITY, June 28, 1753. [Eldest natural] s. of Charles [3rd] Duke of Bolton (and Lavinia Bestwick, the original ‘Polly Peachum’ in Gay's ‘Beggar's Opera’). School, Westminster. ' Matric. Michs. 1753; M.A., per Lit. Reg., 1755. C. of Itchen-Abbas, Hants., 1763. R. of Ludgvan, Cornwall, 1789-90. R. of St Martin-by-Looe, 1785-90. Chaplain to the Duke of Bolton. One of the committee which revised the laws of cricket, at the Star and Garter in Pall Mall, Feb. 25, 1774. A well-known hunting man in Hampshire and author of many hunting songs. R. of Winslade, Hants, 1782-9. Married (1) Mar. 23, 1755, Elizabeth, dau. of James Gunman, of Greenwich Hospital; (2) Anne. Died Jan. 29, 1809, at Upper Titchfield Street, Marylebone. Uncle of the next, whose cures are very often confused with his own. (Record of Old Westminsters; Burke, P. and B.; Boase, Biblio. Cornub., II. 523; G.E.C. (for his parents); G. Mag., 1809, I. 188.)

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