Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (bapt. 14 October 1694 - 17 February 1761) was an English politician, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747.

Life

Born Jacob des Bouverie, he was baptised on 14 October 1694 in St Katharine Cree, London

London

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, the son of Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet and Anne Urry.

Des Bouverie was admitted to the Middle Temple

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 in 1708. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford

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 on 20 October 1711. On 21 November 1736, he succeeded his brother in the baronetcy. He adopted the surname of Bouverie on 22 April 1737.

He held the office of Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Salisbury

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 between 1741 and 1747, and was appointed Recorder

Recorder (judge)

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 of Salisbury

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 in 1744.

He was created Viscount Folkestone and Baron Longford on 29 June 1747 and appointed a deputy lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Wiltshire

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 on 8 November 1750. In 1755 he was elected the first president of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (now the RSA).

Family

He married, firstly, Mary Clarke, daughter of Bartholomew Clarke, on 31 January 1723/24 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. They had eleven children:

• William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor (26 February 1725 – 28 January 1776)
• Mary Bouverie (29 April 1726 – 1729)
• Jacob Bouverie (3 April 1727 – 15 March 1731)
• Bartholomew Bouverie (6 April 1728 – 6 March 1741)
• Hon. Anne Bouverie (7 October 1729 – 31 October 1813), married Hon. George Talbot
• Hon. Mary Bouverie (2 October 1730 – 12 November 1804), married Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury
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• Harriet Bouverie (2 October 1731 – 13 December 1731)
• Hon. Charlotte Bouverie (11 November 1732 – 14 March 1809), married John Grant (d. 8 January 1804)
• Edward Bouverie (b. 18 January 1734, d. young)
• Hon. Harriet Bouverie (17 October 1736 – 12 November 1777), married Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet
  Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet
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• Hon. Edward Bouverie (5 September 1738 – 3 September 1810) - father of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie
  Henry Bouverie
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He married, secondly, Elizabeth Marsham, daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney

Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney

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, on 21 April 1741 in Swanscombe

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. They had two sons:

• Jacob Bouverie (4 June 1742 – 4 February 1745)
• Philip Bouverie Pusey (8 October 1746 – 14 April 1828)