Major General 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 House of Commons between 1729 and 1751.
He joined the Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight from 1733 to his death.
[1] Powlett stood for Newtown at the 1727 British general election and after losing in the poll was returned as Member of Parliament on petition on 25 April 1729.
His second cousin once removed, Captain Harry Powlett, was elected for Christchurch in his place.
[1] In June 1738 he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lewes of Stanford in Nottinghamshire and widow of Richard Dashwood, third son of Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet and a former High Sheriff of Norfolk; they had no children.