Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor

Viscount Folkestone in 1895.

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor CIE CBE (8 July 1868 – 26 June 1930)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life

Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin, and was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900.[2] He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3]

Career

After two years' service as assistant private secretary to the right Hon. Henry Chaplain, from 1890 to 1892,[2] he was elected to the House of Commons at the 1892 general election as Member of Parliament for the Wilton division of Wiltshire, and held the seat until he succeeded to the peerage in 1900.[4] In November 1901 he was elected Mayor of Folkestone for the following year.[5]

Beyond political life, he served in the British Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel commanding the 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment. He saw active service in South Africa, in 1900, and later served in India from 1914 to 1917, where he was Brigadier-General of the Dehra Dun Brigade. In 1918 he was Director of Agricultural Production for the British Expeditionary Force.[2]

He also chaired a Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded, between 1904 and 1908.[2]

Family

Before inheriting the earldom, Pleydell-Bouverie married Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, daughter of Charles Balfour, on 20 January 1891, and they had ten children:

References

  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 'RADNOR, 6th Earl of', in Who Was Who 1929–1940, (1967 reprint ISBN 0-7136-0171-X)
  3. "Bouverie or Pleydell-Bouverie, the Hon. Jacob (BVRY886J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 418. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  5. "Election of Mayors" The Times (London). Monday, 11 November 1901. (36609), p. 7.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Grove, Bt
Member of Parliament for Wilton
18921900
Succeeded by
James Archibald Morrison
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Viscount Long
Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1925–1930
Succeeded by
Sir Ernest Wills, Bt
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
William Pleydell-Bouverie
Earl of Radnor
1900–1930
Succeeded by
William Pleydell-Bouverie
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