Lord Nassau Powlett KB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (23 June 1698 – 24 August 1741) was an English nobleman and politician, the only son of Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke of Bolton by his third wife Henrietta Crofts.

In 1725, he became one of the founder knights of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

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He married Lady Isabella Tufton, daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet

Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet

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, by whom he had one daughter:

• Isabella Paulet (d. 8 September 1821), married on 4 June 1765 John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont
  John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont
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