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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
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.
Robartes died, a bachelor, on 15 July 1757, aged 71. With his death the titles of Earl of Radnor and Baron Robartes became extinct. He bequeathed the house and much of his art collection to his steward, Frederick Atherton Hindley, the Canaletto and Hobbema to James Harris and two Scott paintings to Richard Owen Cambridge. [3]
Before her death on 29 May 1750, they had one son: Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750–1828), who married Hon. Anne Duncombe, daughter of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham and Anne Hales, in 1777. [6] He married, secondly, Rebecca Alleyne (1725–1764), daughter of John Alleyne, on 5 September 1751. Before her death on 4 May ...
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor PC (1606 – 17 July 1685) was an English politician, peer and military officer who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He retired from public life before the trial and execution of Charles I (1649) and did not take an active part in politics until after the Restoration in 1660.
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA (4 March 1750 – 27 January 1828), styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1771 to 1776 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor.
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.