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William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor (born 5 January 1955) is the eldest son of the 8th Earl and his wife Anne Garden Farquharson Seth-Smith. Styled as Viscount Folkestone from 1968, he was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester .
The Earl of Radnor: 1765 William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor Great Britain Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone: 75 The Earl Spencer: 1765 Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer: Great Britain Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp: 76 The Earl Bathurst: 1772 Allen Bathurst, 9th Earl Bathurst: Great Britain Benjamin Bathurst, Lord Apsley: 77
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor (18 September 1815 – 11 March 1889) was a British nobleman and army officer. He was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor and Judith Anne St John-Mildmay. He was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1828 until 1869. [1]
Radnor was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour. His education was Harrow School , and later Trinity College, Cambridge . He married, firstly, Helena Olivia Adeane, daughter of Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane and Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche Wyndham, on 11 October 1922 and had six children.
The Countess of Radnor was born in March 1846 and died in September 1929. [1] She was a musician who in 1881 founded her own string orchestra for women players, initially Lady Folkestone's Band, then Lady Radnor's Band. [12] Sir Hubert Parry wrote his famous Lady Radnor's Suite for her in 1894. She conducted its first performance that year.
Lady Helen Pleydell-Bouverie, OBE (2 January 1908 – 2003), married on 22 July 1931 Lt.-Col Hon. David John Smith, son of the 2nd Viscount Hambleden, and had issue. Hon. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie (19 October 1909 – 1981), married firstly Audrey Evelyn James and secondly Audrey Kidston and had issue by the latter.