Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (bapt. 14 October 1694 – 17 February 1761) was an English politician, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747.

Early life

Lord Folkestone was born Jacob des Bouverie and baptised on 14 October 1694 in St Katharine Cree,

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, the son of Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet and his second wife Anne Urry (daughter and heiress of David Urry of London). On 21 November 1736, he succeeded his elder brother,

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, in the baronetcy and to Longford Castle. He dropped the prefix "des" in his surname by Act of Parliament on 22 April 1737.

Career

He was admitted to the

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in 1708, and matriculated at

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on 20 October 1711. Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
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for

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between 1741 and 1747, and was appointed Recorder of

in 1744. He was created Viscount Folkestone and Baron Longford on 29 June 1747 and was appointed one of the deputy lieutenants of

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on 8 November 1750. In 1755 he was elected the first president of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (now the Royal Society of Arts).

Personal life

He married, firstly, Mary Clarke on 31 January 1724 in

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, London; she was the daughter of Bartholomew Clarke, merchant of Hardingstone and Mary (née Young), sister and sole heir to Hitch Younge MP. Together, they were the parents of five sons and six daughters, but only two sons survived infancy, including: * William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor (1725–1776), who married twice. * Mary Bouverie (1726–1729), who died young. * Jacob Bouverie (1727–1731), who died young. * Bartholomew Bouverie (1728–1741), who died young. * Hon. Anne Bouverie (1729–1813), who married Hon. George Talbot, son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot. * Hon. Mary Bouverie (1730–1804), who married Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury. * Harriet Bouverie (1731–1731), who died young. * Hon. Charlotte Bouverie (1732–1809), who married John Grant of White Waltham (d. 1804). * Edward Bouverie (1734–1734), who died young. * Hon. Harriet Bouverie (1736–1777), who married Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet. * Hon. Edward Bouverie (1738–1810), who married Harriett Fawkener and was the father of Edward Bouverie, Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie. His first wife died on 16 November 1739, and was buried at Britford, Wiltshire. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Marsham, on 21 April 1741 at Swanscombe in Kent. She was the eldest daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney and the former Elizabeth Shovell (daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell). They had two sons: * Jacob Bouverie (1742–1745), who died young. * Philip Bouverie-Pusey (1746–1828), who married Lady Lucy Cave, widow of Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet, MP, and only daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough, in 1798. Lord Folkestone died on 17 February 1761. After his death, his eldest son

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inherited his estates. His second surviving son Edward married Harriet Fawkener and became the owner of Delapré Abbey, Northamptonshire. Members of the Bouverie family went on to hold the Salisbury seat in Parliament for almost the next hundred years.

References

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