词条 | Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone |
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Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (bapt. 14 October 1694 – 17 February 1761) was an English politician of huguenot descent, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747. LifeBorn Jacob des Bouverie, he was baptised on 14 October 1694 in St Katharine Cree, London, the son of Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet and his second wife Anne Urry. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1708, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 20 October 1711. On 21 November 1736, he succeeded his elder brother, Edward, in the baronetcy and to Longford Castle. He dropped the prefix "des" in his surname by Act of Parliament on 22 April 1737.[1][2][3] He was Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain for Salisbury between 1741 and 1747, and was appointed Recorder of Salisbury in 1744.[1][2] He was created Viscount Folkestone and Baron Longford on 29 June 1747 and was appointed one of the deputy lieutenants of Wiltshire on 8 November 1750. In 1755 he was elected the first president of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (now the Royal Society of Arts).[1] FamilyHe married, firstly, Mary Clarke on 31 January 1724 in St Paul's Cathedral, London.,[2] daughter of Bartholomew Clarke, merchant, of Hardingstone in the county of Northamptonshire and Mary née Young, sister and sole heir to Hitch Young MP, of Roehampton, in Surrey. They had five sons and six daughters but only two sons survived infancy. The eldest went on to inherit and his second surviving son Edward married Harriet Fawkener and became owner of Delapré Abbey. :
Mary died on 16 November 1739, and was buried at Britford, Wiltshire.[2] He married, secondly on 21 April 1741 at Swanscombe, Kent, Elizabeth Marsham, eldest daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.[2] They had two sons:
References1. ^1 2 {{cite book | last=Doyle | first=James William Edmund | authorlink=James William Edmund Doyle | title=The Official Baronage of England, v. 1 | place=London | publisher=Longmans, Green | year=1886 | page=758 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-kIAAAAIAAJ}} {{S-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box | before=Peter Bathurst | before2=Henry Hoare | title=Member of Parliament for Salisbury | with=Sir Edward Seymour | years=1741–1747 | after=William Bouverie | after2=Edward Poore}}{{s-reg|gb}}{{s-new | creation}}{{s-ttl | title=Viscount Folkestone | years=1747–1761}}{{s-aft | after=William Bouverie}}{{S-end}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2012}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Folkestone, Jacob Des Bouverie, 1st Viscount}}2. ^1 2 3 4 Cokayne, George Edward (1906) [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524416 Complete Baronetage]. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. {{LCCN|06023564}}. p. 18 3. ^[https://deedpolloffice.com/research/private-acts-parliament/1736-10-Geo-2-8 Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1736 (10 Geo. 2). c. 8] 9 : 1694 births|1761 deaths|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|British MPs 1741–47|Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire|Members of the Middle Temple|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain|Peers of Great Britain created by George II |
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