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The Viscount Folkestone
Member of Parliament for Salisbury
In office
1741–1747
Serving with Sir Edward Seymour
Preceded by Peter Bathurst
Henry Hoare
Succeeded by William Bouverie
Edward Poore
Personal details
Born
Jacob des Bouverie

(1694-10-14)14 October 1694
London, England
Died 17 February 1761(1761-02-17) (aged 66)
Spouses
Mary Clarke
(m. 1724; died 1739)

Elizabeth Marsham
(m. 1741)
Children 13
Parents Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet
Anne Urry
Residence Longford Castle
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford

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.

Early life

Longford Castle front
Longford Castle, Wiltshire

Lord Folkestone was born Jacob des Bouverie and 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 (daughter and heiress of David Urry of London).

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.

Career

He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1708, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 20 October 1711.

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.

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).

Personal life

He married, firstly, Mary Clarke on 31 January 1724 in St Paul's Cathedral, London; she was the daughter of Bartholomew Clarke, merchant of Hardingstone and Mary (née Young), sister and sole heir to Hitch Younge MP. Together, they were the parents of five sons and six daughters, but only two sons survived infancy, including:

His first wife died on 16 November 1739, and was buried at Britford, Wiltshire. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Marsham, on 21 April 1741 at Swanscombe in Kent. She was the eldest daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney and the former Elizabeth Shovell (daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell). They had two sons:

  • Jacob Bouverie (1742–1745), who died young.
  • Philip Bouverie-Pusey (1746–1828), who married Lady Lucy Cave, widow of Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet, MP, and only daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough, in 1798.

Lord Folkestone died on 17 February 1761. After his death, his eldest son William inherited his estates. His second surviving son Edward married Harriet Fawkener and became the owner of Delapré Abbey, Northamptonshire. Members of the Bouverie family went on to hold the Salisbury seat in Parliament for almost the next hundred years.

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