Edward des Bouverie

Sir Edward des Bouverie, 2nd Baronet (c. 1690 – 21 November 1736), was a British landowner and politician.

He was born in 1688, the eldest son of London merchant Sir William des Bouverie and his second wife Anne Urry. William des Bouverie was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1714. Edward des Bouverie succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 19 May 1717, in which year he purchased the estate of Longford Castle, in Britford, Wiltshire.^[1]

He was Tory^[2] Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain for Shaftesbury from 1718 to 1734.^[1] He consistently voted with the Opposition against the Whig government.^[2] He trained as a merchant being sent as an apprentice at the age of 12 to an uncle Sir Christopher des Bouverie at Aleppo and for a time he ran his own cloth business in Cyprus.In 1717 he bought Longford Castle from Lord Coleraine; it has been the home of the Boverie family ever since. He married on 7 July 1718, in the chapel at Somerset House, Strand, London, Mary, the second and youngest daughter and co-heir of John Smyth, of Beaufort buildings on the Strand, Commissioner of Excise, and Elizabeth Mulsho his wife. The second husband of her elder sister, Anne, was Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde. Mary died on 3 January 1721, and was buried at Britford. They had no issue, and on des Bouverie's death on 21 November 1736, at Aix-en-Provence, he was succeeded by his younger brother Jacob. He was buried at Britford.^[1]

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