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Marquess of Winchester is a title in the Peerage of England that was created in 1551 for the prominent statesman William Paulet, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. It is the oldest of six surviving English marquessates; therefore its holder is considered the premier marquess of England.
Arms of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, KG, circumscribed by the Garter, Mapperton Church, Dorset. William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester KG PC (c. 1483/1485 – 10 March 1572), styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1550 and 1551, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and statesman.
Amport House, the principal family seat. Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester (30 October 1862 – 28 June 1962), known as Lord Henry Paulet until 1899, was an English peer, landowner, soldier, sportsman, politician and businessman.
The English title Marquess of Winchester, created in 1551, is the earliest still extant, so is Premier Marquess of England. The title long remained less common, and on the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne explained to her (from her journals):
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. Early life
Charles Powlett (sometimes spelled Paulet), 3rd Duke of Bolton (3 September 1685 – 26 August 1754), styled Earl of Wiltshire from 1685 until 1699, and Marquess of Winchester from 1699 until 1722, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons from 1705 to 1708 and in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1717, when he was raised to the peerage as ...
He succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Winchester on 4 November 1576. During October 1586, he was one of the judges at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, later acting as Lord High Steward at her funeral on 1 August 1587. He is known as the author of The Lord Marquess Idleness, a remarkable and most ingenious acrostic of six Latin verses. [7]
Born at Amport House in 1801 as the eldest son of the 13th Marquess of Winchester, he was educated at Eton. [1] On 10 April 1817, he was commissioned a cornet in the 10th Light Dragoons, [2] bought a lieutenancy on 16 November 1820, [3] and a captaincy in the 35th Regiment of Foot on 12 June 1823. [4]