Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor

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About Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor

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Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor (18 September 1815 – 11 March 1889), 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.

Folkestone was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. On 2 October 1837, he was commissioned a cornet 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 Walter Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam, on 3 October 1840. They had twelve children.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1846 and a deputy lieutenant of Berkshire on 2 May 1855. He succeeded his father as Earl of Radnor in 1869 and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 1878.

Radnor served as Governor of the French Hospital. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.

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Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor's Timeline

1815
September 18, 1815
Portman Square, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England
1841
June 19, 1841
1842
October 10, 1842
1845
1845
1846
July 18, 1846
1847
September 29, 1847
1858
1858
St George Hanover Square, London, England (United Kingdom)
1889
March 11, 1889
Age 73
Longford Castle, Longford, Britford, Wiltshire, England
March 15, 1889
Age 73
Britford, Wiltshire, England