Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor (10 November 1927 – 10 August 2008) was a British nobleman. He was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor and Helena Olivia Adeane.

He married, firstly, Anne Garden Seth-Smith, daughter of Donald Farquaharson Seth-Smith, on 8 July 1953 and they were divorced in 1962.^[1] He and Anne had two sons:

• William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor (b. 5 January 1955)
• Hon. Peter John Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 14 January 1958), married Hon. Jane Victoria Gilmour (b. 1959), daughter of Sir Ian Gilmour, in 1986 and had issue.

He married, secondly, Margaret Robin Fleming, daughter of Robin Fleming, in 1963 and they were divorced in 1985. They had four daughters:

• Lady Martha Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1964)
• Lady Lucy Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1964)
• Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1966) whose husband died recently.
• Lady Frances Pleydell-Bouverie (b. 1973)

He married, thirdly, Mary Jillean Gwenellan Eddy, daughter of William Edward Montague Eddy, in 1986. He died at Longford Castle in 2008.

From 1971 to 2008 he served as Governor of the French Hospital in Rochester, Kent. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2014.^[2]

Notes

1. Seth-Smith family tree.
2. 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 ISBN 978-0-9524322-7-2.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor

16. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor               8. William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor                       17. Lady Mary Grimston               4. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor                             18. Henry Chaplin               9. Helen Chaplin                       19. Caroline Ellice               2. William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor                                   20. James Balfour               10. Charles Balfour                       21. Lady Eleanor Maitland               5. Julian Balfour                             22. The Hon. George Liddell               11. Minnie Liddell                       23. Cecil Wellesley               1. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor                                         24. Henry Adeane               12. Henry Adeane                       25. The Hon. Matilda Stanley               6. Charles Adeane                             26. Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke               13. Lady Elizabeth Yorke                       27. The Hon. Susan Liddell               3. Helena Adeane                                   28. George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield               14. The Hon. Percy Wyndham                       29. Mary Blunt               7. Madeline Wyndham                             30. Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet               15. Madeline Campbell                       31. Pamela FitzGerald

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Radnor
• Pedigree at Genealogics