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Sir Charles Armand Powlett, KB (c. 1694 – 14 November 1751), of Leadwell (now Ledwell), Oxfordshire, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the

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between 1729 and 1751. Powlett was the younger son of

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, brother of the second Duke of Bolton, by his wife Louisa, daughter of Armand Nompar de Caumont, Marquis de Montpouillon, and granddaughter of Henri Nompar de Caumont, 3rd Duc de La Force. He joined the Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was appointed

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from 1733 to his death. Powlett stood for Newtown at the

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and after losing in the poll was returned as

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on petition on 25 April 1729. At the

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he was defeated at St Ives. He was returned as MP for

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at a by election on 3 April 1740, and on 27 December of that year he became

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of a newly raised regiment of

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, which took his name and was later ranked as the 52nd Regiment of Foot. He was returned unopposed for Christchurch in

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and

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. His regiment was disbanded on 7 November 1748. On 2 May 1749 Powlett was made a Knight Companion of the

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, and on 1 November he was appointed Colonel of what had been

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's Regiment, later the

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. On 26 January 1751 he became Colonel of the 13th Dragoons, a post he held until his death later that year. His second cousin once removed, Captain Harry Powlett, was elected for Christchurch in his place. In June 1738 he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lewes of Stanford in

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and widow of Richard Dashwood, third son of

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and a former

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; they had no children. Sir Charles Powlett was survived by Lady Powlett, who died in September 1756, by his stepson Robert Dashwood, and by his step-grandson Charles Vere Dashwood, of Stanford, who was later to name his eldest son Charles Armand Dashwood.

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