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 2i6 BOLTON d. in Grosvenor Sq., 2i, and was bur. 29 Mar. 1809, ^^ Basing, aged 73. Will(^) pr. July 1809. BARONY. I. Thomas Orde-Powlett, of Hackwood Park, y Hants, formerly Thomas Orde, 2nd s. of John O., of 797' 'Ezst Orde and Morpeth, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of Ralph Marr, of Morpeth, was b. 30 Aug., and bap. 2 Oct. 1740, at Mor- peth; ed. at Eton and at King's Coll. Cambridge, of which he] was some- time Fellow. B.A. 1770, M.A. 1773; Auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1772-74, and Receiver Gen. thereof 1774 till his death; F.S.A. 23 Feb. 1775. He was M.P. (Tory) for Aylesbury C") 1780-84; for Harwich 1784-96, as also for Rathcormick [I.] 1784-90; Under Home Sec. Apr. to July 1782; Sec. to the Treasury 1782-83 ;(•=) P.C. [I.] 24 Feb. 1784; Sec. to the Lord Lieut. [L] 1784-87; P.C. [G.B.] 23 Nov. 1785; a Member of the Board of Trade 1786 till his death; Governor of the Isle of Wight 1791-1807. Lord Lieut, of Hants 1800 till his death. Having m., 7 Apr. 1778, at St. Marylebone, "Jean Mary Browne-Powlett," usually called Miss Powlett,('^) illegit. da. of Charles (Powlett), 5th Dure of Bolton, by "Mrs. Mary Browne Banks,"('^) and having in right of his said wife, on the death of the last Duke of Bolton in 1794, sue. to Bolton Castle and other estates, took by Royal lie, 7 Jan. 1795, for himself and issue, the surname oi Powlett after that of Orde, and was cr., 20 Oct. 1797, BARON BOLTON OF BOLTON CASTLE, CO. York, taking his seat 3 Nov. following. He d. at Hack- wood Park, 30 July, and was bur. 8 Aug. 1807, at Old Basing, Hants, aged 66. (^) Will pr. Aug. 1807. His widow ^. at the Hot Wells, Bristol, 14, and was bur. 24 Dec. 1814, at Old Basing, aged St,. Will pr. Feb. 18 15. (*) Under her will, her grandson, William John Frederick Vane, afterwards Powlett, (who in 1864 sue. as 3rd Duke of Cleveland), inherited very considerable property. C") Though he always supported Lord North, yet he took office with the Whigs under Rockingham and Shelburne; afterwards opposing the Coalition and becoming a staunch adherent of Pitt. V.G. Q He is thus satirised in the Rolliad: " Tall and erect, unmeaning, mute and pale, O'er his blank face no gleams of thought prevail." "A cold, cautious, slow and sententious man, tolerably well informed, but not at all talented, with a mind neither powerful nor feeble." [Decline and Fall of the Irish Nation, by Sir Jonah Barrington). V.G. (■*) These are so named in the will of Charles, Duke of Bolton, dat. 4 June to 23 Nov. 1763, by which he devised considerable estates to the former (his da.) in the event (which took place in 1794) of the death of his br., Lord Harry Powlett, afterwards 6th and last Duke of Bolton, without male issue. (') He was a capable etcher and caricaturist.