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unusual facts about Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet



Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie

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.

Richard Levett

A pioneering British merchant and politician, he counted among his friends and acquaintances Samuel Pepys, Robert Blackborne, John Houblon, physician to the Royal Family and son-in-law Sir Edward Hulse, Lord Mayor Sir William Gore, his brother-in-law Chief Justice Sir John Holt, Robert Hooke, Sir Owen Buckingham, Sir Charles Eyre and others.

Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet

His body was discovered in his bedroom in Johannesburg on the morning of 30 May 1903 having committed suicide with his revolver.


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