Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor | |
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High Sheriff of Wiltshire | |
In office 1846 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 September 1815 |
Died | 11 March 1889 | (aged 73)
Spouse |
Mary Grimston (m. 1840) |
Children | 12, including William |
Parent |
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Relatives | Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (brother) Mary Playdell-Bouverie (sister) Jacob Playdell-Bouverie (grandfather) Henry Pelham-Clinton (grandfather) |
Education | Christ Church, Oxford |
Military career | |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Unit | Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Yeomanry |
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor (18 September 1815 – 11 March 1889) was a British nobleman and army officer.
He was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor and Judith Anne St John-Mildmay. He was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1828 until 1869.[1]
Folkestone was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. On 2 October 1837, he was commissioned a cornet in the Salisbury Troop of the Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Yeomanry. He was a lieutenant in the Regiment from 20 May 1840 to April 1847.[1]
He married Lady Mary Augusta Frederica Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam, on 3 October 1840. She was one of the train-bearers to Queen Victoria at the 1838 coronation.[2]
They had twelve children:
Folkestone was High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1846 and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Berkshire on 2 May 1855. He succeeded his father as Earl of Radnor in 1869 and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1878.[1]
Radnor served as governor of the French Hospital, at that time in London. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.[3]