Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton

Lieutenant-general Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton, KB, PC (c. 1718 – 5 July 1765), styled Marquess of Winchester from 1754 to 1759, was a British soldier, nobleman and Whig politician.

Under a compromise he was made 'Brigadier-General of Militia for the County of Southampton', with general command over both independent regiments.

[2] Lord Bolton never married, however, he had a child with Mary Browne Banks: On 5 July 1765, Bolton died by suicide – shooting himself in the head with a pistol in his house in Grosvenor Square; "nobody knows why or wherefore," wrote Horace Walpole, "except that there is a good deal of madness in the blood".

[3] Unmarried, Lord Bolton entailed most of his extensive estates to his illegitimate daughter, Jean Mary Browne-Powlett, in default of male issue of his younger brother Harry.

When Harry died without male heirs in 1794, the Dukedom became extinct, and the inheritance passed to Thomas Orde in right of his wife.

Coat of arms of 'The Most High, Puissant, and Noble Prince Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton, Marquis of Winchester , Earl of Wiltshire , Baron St. John of Basing , Premier Marquis of England', by Sir William Segar and Joseph Edmondson , 1764.