Admiral

Admiral

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 The Honourable

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 Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (28 June 1780 – 5 November 1850), was a British naval commander and Whig politician.

Pleydell-Bouverie was the second son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA was a British nobleman, styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776.-Life:...

 of Coleshill House in Berkshire

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 (now Oxfordshire

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), and the Honourable Anne, daughter of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor , styled Viscount Folkestone until 1828, was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor and Hon. Anne Duncombe....

, was his elder brother.

Pleudell-Bouverie was an Admiral in the Royal Navy

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. He also sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Downton

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 between 1806 and 1807 and for Salisbury

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 between 1828 and 1832 and again from 1833 to 1835. He is not recorded as having ever spoken in the House of Commons

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. He hoisted his flag in HMS Victory

HMS Victory

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 as Port Admiral at Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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 in 1837.

Pleydell-Bouverie married Louisa, daughter of Joseph May, in 1809. He died in November 1850, aged 70.

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