Background
Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin, and was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900.
Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin, and was styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900.
He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After two years" service as assistant private secretary to the right Honorary In November 1901 he was elected Mayor of Folkestone for the following year. Beyond political life, he served in the British Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel commanding the 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment.
He saw active service in South Africa, in 1900, and later served in India from 1914 to 1917, where he was Brigadier-General of the Dehra Dun Brigade.
In 1918 he was Director of Agricultural Production for the British Expeditionary Force. He also chaired a Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded, between 1904 and 1908.
Before inheriting the earldom, Pleydell-Bouverie married Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, daughter of Charles Balfour, on 20 January 1891, and they had ten children:
Lady Jeane Pleydell-Bouverie (23 March 1892–1976), married Major (George) Gerald Petherick (d 1946) in 1914 and had issue.
Lady Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie (16 May 1894 – 12 November 1961), married John Henry McNeile.
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor (1895–1968)
Lady Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie (27 June 1897–1982)
Captain Honorary Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (10 September 1899 – 7 May 1951), married Alice Pearl Crake, widow of 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, and had issue. Major Honorary Bartholemew Pleydell-Bouverie (b 6 April 1902), married firstly Lady Doreen Clare Hely-Hutchinson, daughter of the 6th Earl of Donoughmore, and had issue and secondly with Katherine Tod.
Lady Margaret Pleydell-Bouverie (26 June 1903 – 17 September 2002), married Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Barry and had issue.
Honorary Anthony Pleydell-Bouverie (26 March 1905 – 25 June 1961), married Anita Estelle Costiander. Lady Helen Pleydell-Bouverie, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2 January 1908–1976), married on 22 July 1931 Lieutenant-Colonel Honorary
David John Smith, son of the 2nd Viscount Hambleden, and had issue. Honorary Peter Pleydell-Bouverie (19 October 1909–1981), married firstly Audrey Evelyn James and secondly Audrey Kidston and had issue by the latter.
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Henry Chaplain, from 1890 to 1892, he was elected to the House of Commons at the 1892 general election as Member of Parliament for the Wilton division of Wiltshire, and held the seat until he succeeded to the peerage in 1900.
