Philip Pleydell-Bouverie

The Hon. Philip Pleydell-Bouverie (21 October 1788 – 27 May 1872), was a British Whig politician.

Background

Pleydell-Bouverie was a younger son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, by his wife the Hon. Anne, daughter of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. The family home was Coleshill House in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).

Political career

Pleydell-Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Cockermouth in 1830, a seat he held until the following year, and then represented Downton until 1832. He remained out of the House of Commons for 24 years, but in 1857 he was elected as one of three Members of Parliament for Berkshire. He held the seat until 1865.

Family

Pleydell-Bouverie married Maria, daughter of Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet, in 1811. She died in November 1862. Pleydell-Bouverie survived her by ten years and died in May 1872, aged 83.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Philip Pleydell-Bouverie

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Garlies Laurence Peel	Member of Parliament for Cockermouth 1830–1831 With: Lord Garlies	Succeeded by John Lowther Sir James Scarlett
Preceded by James Brougham Thomas Creevey	Member of Parliament for Downton 1831–1832 With: Thomas Creevey	Constituency disenfranchised
Preceded by Robert Palmer The Viscount Barrington George Henry Vansittart	Member of Parliament for Berkshire 1857–1865 With: Robert Palmer 1857–1859 George Henry Vansittart 1857–1859 Leicester Viney Vernon 1859–1860 John Walter 1859–1865 Richard Benyon 1860–1865	Succeeded by Richard Benyon Robert Loyd-Lindsay Sir Charles Russell, Bt
Honorary titles
Preceded by Robert Charles Tudway	High Sheriff of Somerset 1843	Succeeded by John Fownes Luttrell