The street's name comes from the landlords of the area, the Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor.
Its name comes from the landlords of this area, the Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor.
Edward Bouverie Pusey | Pleydell-Bouverie | William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor | Edward des Bouverie |
An office-bearer ('Assassin') of The Poker Club, and a friend of Boswell and Johnson, Crosbie was the basis of the character Councillor Pleydell in Sir Walter Scotts's novel Guy Mannering.
They had no issue, and on des Bouverie's death on 21 November 1736, at Aix-en-Provence, he was succeeded by his younger brother Jacob.
She died in 1950 and he subsequently married Lady Phoebe Pleydell-Bouverie, third daughter of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, with whom he had two children.
His granddaughter Melissa Stanford is the wife of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor.
Mary Bouverie (2 October 1730 – 12 November 1804), married Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury
Born in Faringdon, then in Berkshire (prior to the Local Government Act 1972), to Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie and his wife Maria Eleanor, the daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Baronet, her paternal grandfather was Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor.
In 1717 Longford Castle became the Bouverie home, purchased by Sir Edward des Bouverie from the Coleraines.
4th 1946 (divorced 1952) David Pleydell-Bouverie, of the Earls of Radnor (born 1911)