Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor (10 November 1927 – 10 August 2008) was a British nobleman. He was the son of
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor (18 December 1895 – 23 November 1968) was a British peer.
Biography
Radnor was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour. His education was Harrow ...
and Helena Olivia Adeane.
Biography
He married, firstly, Anne Garden Seth-Smith, daughter of Donald Farquaharson Seth-Smith, on 8 July 1953 and they were divorced in 1962. He and Anne had two sons:
*William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor (b. 5 January 1955)
*Hon. Peter John Pleydell-Bouverie
DL (b. 14 January 1958), married Hon. Jane Victoria Gilmour (b. 1959), daughter of
Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, (8 July 1926 – 21 September 2007) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was styled Sir Ian Gilmour, 3rd Baronet from 1977, hav ...
, in 1986 and had issue.
He married, secondly, Margaret Robin Fleming, daughter of Robin Fleming, in 1963 and they were divorced in 1985. They had four daughters:
*Lady Martha Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1964)
*Lady Lucy Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1964)
*Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1966), married in 2006 Anthony Paget (1946-2007)
*Lady Frances Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1973)
He married, thirdly, Mary Jillean Gwenellan Eddy, daughter of William Edward Montague Eddy, in 1986. He died at
Longford Castle
Longford Castle is a Grade I listed country house on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is the seat of the Earl of Radnor and an example of the Elizabethan prodigy house.
History
In 1573 Thomas Gorges ...
in 2008.
From 1971 to 2008 he served as Governor of the
French Hospital in Rochester, Kent. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.
[Tessa Murdoch and Randolph Vigne with foreword by Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor, ''The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections'' Cambridge: John Adamson .]
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Ancestry
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1927 births
2008 deaths
Earls of Radnor
Jacob
Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...
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