Charles Frederick Powlett, 2nd Baron Bayning (26 September 1785 – 2 August 1823), known as the Honourable Charles Townshend from 1797 to 1810, was a British peer and

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Member of Parliament. Bayning was the eldest son of

Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning Privy Council of Great Britain, PC (27 August 1728 – 19 May 1810) was a British politician. Background and education Bayning was the only son of William Townshend (MP), William Townshend, third son of Charl ...

, son of William Townshend and Henrietta Powlett. His mother was Annabella Smith-Powlett, daughter of Reverend Richard Smith and Annabella Powlett. He was educated at

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. In 1808, Bayning was elected to the

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for

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, a seat he held until 1810, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the

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. In 1821, he assumed by Royal Licence the surname of Powlett in lieu of Townshend. He lived at

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. Lord Bayning died in August 1823, aged 37. He never married and was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother

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Charles Powlett The Reverend Charles Powlett (1728 – 29 January 1809) was a patron of English cricket who has been described as the mainstay, if not the actual founder, of the Hambledon Club.Ashley-Cooper, p. 155. Powlett held an important position in the adm ...

Powlett, Charles Powlett, Charles UK MPs who inherited peerages People from Honingham Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

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