Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor CIE, CBE (8 July 1868 – 26 June 1930)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
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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]
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]
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]
Before inheriting the earldom, Pleydell-Bouverie married Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, daughter of Charles Balfour, on 20 January 1891, and they had ten children:
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Thomas Grove, Bt |
Member of Parliament for Wilton 1892 – 1900 |
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 |