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Biography of William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor 1725-1776

On 31st January 1724 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone and [his mother] Mary Clarke were married at St Paul's Cathedral.

On 26th February 1725 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor was born to [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone and [his mother] Mary Clarke.

On 21st November 1736 [his uncle] Edward des Bouverie 2nd Baronet died at Aix in France. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Britford. [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone succeeded 3rd Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London.

On 16th November 1739 [his mother] Mary Clarke died. She was buried at Britford, Wiltshire.

On 21st April 1741 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Marsham Viscountess Fokestone were married at Swanscombe, Kent.

On 29th June 1747 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone was created 1st Viscount Folkestone, 1st Baron Longford. [his step-mother] Elizabeth Marsham Viscountess Fokestone by marriage Viscountess Folkestone.

On 14th January 1748 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor and Harriet Pleydell were married.

On 4th March 1750 [his son] Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie 2nd Earl Radnor was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor and [his wife] Harriet Pleydell at Westminster. He married 24th January 1777 Anne Duncombe Countess Radnor, daughter of Anthony Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham and Anne Hales Baroness Feversham Downton, and had issue.

On 5th September 1751 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor and Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone were married.

On 30th October 1752 [his son] William Henry Bouverie was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor and [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone. He married 16th August 1777 Bridget Douglas, daughter of James Douglas 14th Earl Morton and Bridget Heathcote Countess Morton, and had issue.

On 29th October 1753 [his son] Bartholomew Bouverie was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor and [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone. He married 1779 Mary Arundell and had issue.

On 17th February 1761 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone died. William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor succeeded 2nd Viscount Folkestone, 2nd Baron Longford, 4th Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London. [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone by marriage Viscountess Folkestone.

Before 17th September 1761 [his brother-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury and [his sister] Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury and Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury.

On 4th May 1764 [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone died.

In 1765 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor was created 1st Earl Radnor.

On 28th January 1776 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor died. [his son] Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie 2nd Earl Radnor succeeded 2nd Earl Radnor, 3rd Viscount Folkestone, 3rd Baron Longford, 5th Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London.