rank about his predecessor; the first of these honours was won by the last-named merchant, who was knighted. His son, William Des Bouveries, was created a Baronet on 19th February 1714; Sir William died on 19th May 1717. His two elder sons, by his second wife, (Anne, daughter and heiress of David Urry, Esq.) became successively the second and third baronets. Of these the former. Sir Edward De Bouverie, married Mary, one of the co-heirs of John Smith, Esq. (M.P. for Andover, and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1702 to 1708) and sister of Anne, Countess of Clanricarde. On the death of Sir Edward, without issue, in 1736, his brother Sir Jacob became the third baronet, and on 29th June 1747, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Folkestone. Several families sprang from this noble lord; his heir as chief of the name was his eldest son, by his first wife, Mary, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew Clarke, Esq. of Hardingstone.
This son and heir, the Hon. William Bouverie, was born in 1725, and married on 14th January 1748, Harriet, only daughter and heiress of Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, Bart. In his father’s lifetime, viz., on 29th Oct. 1765, he was raised to an earldom as Earl of Radnor. His youthful son, the Hon. Jacob Bouverie, then became entitled to the courtesy title of Lord Pleydell-Bouverie, and in 1768 succeeded to Coleshill, his maternal grandfather’s estate in Berkshire, when he assumed, according to the directions of the will, the double surname of Pleydell-Bouverie. On the death of Earl Ligonier the Earl of Radnor became Governor of the French Hospital, and on the death of the first Viscount Folkestone in 1771, he succeeded to the paternal Viscountry and to his said father’s other title of Lord Longford, which had been adopted from the family mansion and estate of Longford Castle in Wiltshire. William, Earl of Radnor, died in 1776, when his son, already memorialized, became the 2d Earl of Radnor. Jacob, 2d Earl, married in 1777, the Hon. Anne Duncombe, daughter of Lord Feversham, and died in his 77th year, on 27th May 1828. His son William, 3d Earl, died in his 90th year, on 9th April 1869, and his successor (his elder son by his second wife, Anne Judith, daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St John Mildmay, Bart.) is Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor, father of the heir apparent Jacob, Viscount Folkestone, and grandfather of the Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie (born in 1868). The second Earl became Governor of the French Hospital in 1789, and the 3d and 4th Earls were elected to the Governorship at the periods of their respective accessions to the Earldom.
The family of Bouverie of Delaprè Abbey was founded by Hon. Edward Bouverie, M.P. for New Sarum, second son of the first Viscount Folkestone. This Mr Bouverie succeeded to the estate of Delaprè Abbey, near Northampton, in right of his mother; he married in 1764 Harriet, only daughter of Sir Edward Fawkenor; his sons were Edward Bouverie, Esq., (born 1767, died 1858), Rev. John Bouverie, Prebendary of Lincoln (born 1779, died 1855), and Lieut.-General Sir Henry Edward Bouverie, G.C.B. (born 1783, died 1852) who became connected by marriage with the family of Montolieu; the daughters of the Hon. Edward (sisters of the last-named) were Harriet Elizabeth, Countess of Rosslyn (died 1810), Mary Charlotte (Mrs Maxwell of Carriden) Jane, Lady Vincent, and Diana Julia (Hon. Mrs Ponsonby. The eldest son of Edward Bouverie, Esq., is General Everard William Bouverie.
The family of Pusey sprang from the first Viscount Folkestone’s second marriage (in 1741) to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, 1st Lord Romney, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel. The only son of this marriage was the Hon. Philip Bouverie (born 1746, died 1828) who dropped the name of Bouverie, and assumed the surname of Pusey. He married in 1798 a daughter of the Earl of Harborough (Lady Lucy Pusey survived till 1858). There are three branches of the Pusey family; the chief of the senior branch is Sidney Edward Bouverie Pusey of Pusey, in Berkshire, grandson of the founder. The head of the second branch is the second son of the founder, the celebrated Edward Bouverie Pusey, D.D., Professor of Hebrew in Oxford University (born 1800); and the third son. Rev. William Pusey, is the founder of a third branch.
The second son of the 1st Earl of Radnor was the Hon. Bartholomew Bouverie, graduate of University College, Oxford, and M.P. for Pownton in Wiltshire (born 1753, died 1835).
