Career
He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Mary I on 30 November 1553. The offices he held during his career included: Justice of the Peace, Hampshire from c.1559 Sheriff of Hampshire 1560-1561 Justice of the Peace, Dorset from 1564 Commissioner for the Musters, Dorset 1569 High Steward, Dorchester by 1570 Joint Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1569 and 1585/6-98 Joint Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1585 Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1585-1586 Lord High Steward for the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1 August 1587 Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1596 Commissioner for Ecclesiastical Causes, Diocese of Winchester 1597 Paulet was summoned to Parliament on 5 May 1572 in his father"s Barony of Street John. He succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Winchester on 4 November 1576.
During October of 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. lieutenant was published in 1586 and 1587.
He died 24 November 1598 and was buried at Basing, Hampshire. His widow, Anne Paulet, died 18 November 1601.
The date of Jane Lambert"s death is not recorded.
