A branch of the family of Bouverie was founded by the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Pleydell Bouverie, Canon of Salisbury (born 1785, died 1857), third son of the 2d Earl of Radnor. And the next brother, Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie, M.P., Banker in Westminster, is represented by a son and grandsons.
The most eminent living scion of the Radnor family is the Right Honourable Edward Pleydell Bouverie, M.P. (born in 1818). He married Elizabeth Anne, daughter of General Balfour of Balbirnie and has a family. By his talents he won a seat in Parliament at the hands of the electors of Kilmarnock in 1844, and has been in office in various departments from 1850 to 1865. As a Privy Councillor he has the style of “Right Honourable;” by birth he is “the Honourable,” being the younger brother of the present Earl. He is now an Ecclesiastical Commissioner. Lady Jane Harriet Ellice and Lady Penzance are the sisters of Mr Bouverie.
Perhaps the Gallo-Belgic refugee surname, which stands next in order of celebrity is Bonnell. This family appears, first in Norwich, and then in London. In the lists of strangers in the metropolis, compiled in obedience to the Privy Council Order of 6th Sept. 1618, there is found, among residents in Cheap Ward, “David Bonnel, born in Norwich, the son of an alien, a merchaunt.” The authentic pedigree in the Visitation of Middlesex, begins with David Bonnell of the city of London, gentleman, and his wife Katherine, daughter of _____ Best, of London, gentleman; the five sons of this couple are recorded, namely, David, Jacob, Jeremy, Nathaniel, and Simeon, all alive in 1663, and a daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas Ratcliffe. The eldest of these five sons is styled David Bonnell of Isleworth, county Middlesex, Esq., and he was living in 1677; his wife was Ann, daughter of Andrew Boevey of London, gentleman; and his son (the only son in 1663) was Andrew Bonnell of St Dunstan’s in the East, merchant, who married in Dec. 1670, Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas Aleyn, Bart. David Bonnell, Esq., of Isleworth, had a daughter Mary, who in 1677 was married to Thomas Crawley of St Dunstan’s in the East, merchant. She became a widow in 1714, and died in 1718; her surviving son, Thomas Crawley, assumed in 1726 the additional surname of Boevey on succeeding to the landed estate acquired by the representatives of his great-grandfather. Mr Crawley Boevey died in 1742, and his successor was a second Thomas Crawley Boevey Esq., (born 1709, died 1769), whose son and namesake (born 1745) having married Ann Savage, eventually the nearest relative of Sir Charles Barrow, Bart, M.P., became, in 1789, through a special remainder in that patent of baronetcy, Sir Thomas Crawley Boevey, Bart. Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley Boevey, the present and fifth baronet, is great grandson to the first Sir Thomas.
The surname of Boevey, which has thus survived through so many generations, is also a Protestant refugee name. The will of Andrew Boevey of St Dunstan’s in the East, London, merchant, proved in the prerogative court on 13th September 1625, is dated 3d July 1623. He mentions that he was born at Cortrich in Flanders [now Courtray in Belgium], but is now in the fifty-first year of his residence in London, being of the age of 57; he leaves legacies to the Dutch congregations at London and Norwich, and “to the poor of the reformed congregation at Harlem, £5;” (he mentions the children of Lewis Boevey, but does not state how he is related to them). Mr Boevey had been twice married, and had two sons William (by the first marriage) and James (by the second marriage). William, who died 15th July 1661 leaving £30,000 in personalty and considerable real estate, had one son John,[1] and this son’s only child Richard Boevey took the name of Garth, and is ancestor of the Garths of Morden in Surrey. James Boevey (already named) was of Cheam, Surrey, and also of London, merchant; he died in February 1696 (new style). He and his half-brother William were in 1647 joint-purchasers of the estate of Flaxley Abbey in Gloucestershire, which they dealt with in various ways. Eventually it became the property of their eldest
- ↑ Besides this John Boevey (ancestor of Garth of Morden) William Hoevey had two daughters, viz., (1.) Mary, wife of Francis Courtenay of Powderham and ancestress of the Viscounts Courtenay, and (2.) Judith, wife of Sir Levinus Bennet of Babraham, Bart.
