William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, (18 December 1895 – 23 November 1968) was a British peer. Radnor was the son of

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor, (8 July 1868 – 26 June 1930), styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900, was a British Conservative Party politician and a British Army officer. Early life Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of Will ...

and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour. His education was

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, and later

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. He married, firstly, Helena Olivia Adeane, daughter of Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane and Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, on 11 October 1922 and had six children. He and Helena were divorced in 1942. *Lady Jane Pleydell-Bouverie (14 September 1923 – 21 July 2006), married Richard Anthony Bethell in 1945 *Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie (15 January 1925 – 1961) *

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor 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 and Helena Olivia Adeane. He married, firstly, Anne Garden Seth-Smith, daug ...

(10 November 1927 – 2008) *Hon. Reuben Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 30 December 1930) *Lady Phoebe Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 25 January 1932), who married

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(1906–1969) *Lady Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 18 December 1935) He married, secondly, Anne Isobel Graham Oakley, daughter of

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Richard Oakley, on 9 October 1943 and had one child. *Hon. Richard Oakley Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 25 June 1947) who served as

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in 1998. Radnor served as Governor of the French Hospital. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.Tessa Murdoch and

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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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