Norton Powlett (c. 1705–1759), of Rotherfield Park, near Alton and Amport, Hampshire, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1730 to 1734. Powlett was the eldest son of Norton Powlett MP of Rotherfield Park, near Alton and Amport, Hampshire and his wife Jane Morley, daughter of Sir Charles Morley of Droxford, Hampshire. He matriculated at

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on 17 December 1722, aged 17. Powlett was returned as

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for

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at a by-election on 26 January 1730 on the interest of

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. He voted against the Administration on the Hessians in 1730 but with them on the army in 1732. He voted for the

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in 1733 and abstained from the division on the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. He did not stand at the

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. Powlett became Sheriff of Southampton in 1738. In 1741 he succeeded his father to the family estates. He married Anne Chute, a widow on 20 January 1756. He died without issue on 14 March 1759.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Powlett, Norton 1700s births 1759 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734