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.

Biography

Folkestone was educated at Harrow and

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. On 2 October 1837, he was commissioned a

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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. 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

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at the 1838 coronation. They had twelve children: *

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC (19 June 1841 – 3 June 1900), styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household under Lord Salisbury between 1885 and ...

(19 June 1841 – 3 June 1900) *Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (10 October 1842 – 25 January 1909), married Maria Eleanor Hulse, daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Baronet. They had a son and two daughters, one of them the potter Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie. *Rev. Hon. Bertrand Pleydell-Bouverie (23 April 1845 – 7 November 1926), married Lady Constance Jane Nelson, daughter of Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson *Lt.-Col. Hon. John Pleydell-Bouverie (18 July 1846 – 28 March 1925), married Grace Malaby, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Robert Malaby, and had a daughter *Lady Anne Pleydell-Bouverie (c.1847 – 18 September 1915), married Archibald Alexander Speirs *Hon. Mark Pleydell-Bouverie (27 September 1851 – 17 February 1895) *Hon. Kenelm Pleydell-Bouverie (29 March 1852 – 11 July 1921), married Evelyn Maitland-Makgill-Crichton and had issue *Lady Margaret Pleydell-Bouverie (c.1853 – 5 January 1924), married David Maitland-Makgill-Crichton and had issue *Lady Edith Pleydell-Bouverie (c.1855 – 28 December 1922), married Charles Cotes, son of Rev. Charles Grey Cotes (maternal grandson of George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford and Fanny Henrietta Pigot (daughter of Sir George Pigot, 3rd Baronet) *Hon. Christopher Pleydell-Bouverie (30 December 1856 – 22 March 1892) *Hon. Frank Pleydell-Bouverie (19 April 1858 – 15 July 1909) *Lady Gertrude Pleydell-Bouverie (19 April 1858 – 11 January 1940), married Arthur Monckton and had issue. Folkestone was

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for 1846 and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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on 2 May 1855. He succeeded his father as

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in 1869 and was appointed

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in 1878. 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.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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