Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA (4 March 1750 – 27 January 1828), styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1771 to 1776 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor. [1]
Born in Westminster, he was the son of William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor and Harriet Pleydell, the daughter of Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell of Coleshill House in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Jacob was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, from which he took a BA in 1770 and an MA in 1773. [1] He was returned to the House of Commons for Salisbury upon his coming of age in 1771. [2]
He succeeded his father as Earl of Radnor on 23 January 1776 and as Recorder of Salisbury on 13 March 1776. [1] On 15 February 1779, Radnor was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was commissioned a captain in the Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia on 27 September 1779. On 30 November 1780, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Wiltshire, and on 19 November 1791, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, a post he resigned in 1819 due to ill health. From 24 December 1791 to 8 May 1800, he was also colonel of the Berkshire Militia. [1] [3]
Radnor became a director of the French Hospital in 1789, later serving as governor. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015. [4]
On 12 February 1795, Radnor was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was appointed High Steward of Wallingford in 1799. On 20 January 1802, he was also appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent. [1] He died at Longford Castle in Wiltshire in 1828 and was succeeded by his eldest son.
Radnor resided at Longford Castle and his mother's property, Coleshill House, and married Hon. Anne Duncombe, daughter of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham and Anne Hales, on 24 January 1777 and had seven children:
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