William Powlett (MP)

William Powlett (1693–1757), of Chilbolton and Easton, Hampshire, was an 18th-century English landowner and Whig politician, who sat as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons between 1729 and 1757.

[2] Mayor of Lymington for 1718/19 and 1721/22, he succeeded to the estates of his father, Lord William Powlett, upon his decease in 1729.

Voting against the Government until 1746, Powlett supported the Hanoverian Dress Act (1746), then being defeated as MP for Winchester at the 1747 British general election and again at a by-election in 1751.

[1] At the 1754 British general election, Powlett was returned unopposed for Whitchurch on the interest of his brother-in-law, John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth.

[1] On 10 February 1721, Powlett married Lady Annabella Bennet (died 1769), daughter of Charles, 1st Earl of Tankerville KT, having (with a son and daughter): His brother, Sir Charles Powlett, also served as an MP.