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
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and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour. His education was
Harrow School
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, and later
Trinity College, Cambridge
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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)
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Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor (10 November 1927 - 11 August 2008)
*Hon. Reuben Pleydell-Bouverie (30 December 1930 - 19 August 2020)
*Lady Phoebe Pleydell-Bouverie (25 January 1932 - 1995), who married in 1955
Hubert Beaumont Phipps (1905–1969)
*Lady Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 18 December 1935), who married in 1965 Mark Iain Tennant (b. 1932)
He married, secondly, Anne Isobel Graham Oakley, daughter of
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Oakley, on 9 October 1943 and had one child.
*Hon. Richard Oakley Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 25 June 1947) who served as
High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
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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 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 .]
Arms
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Deputy lieutenants of Wiltshire
Earls of Radnor
Knights of the Garter
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
High sheriffs of Hertfordshire
William
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