| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Earl of Radnor | |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for Wilton |
| Term Start1: | 16 July 1892 |
| Term End1: | 3 June 1900 |
| Predecessor1: | Sir Thomas Grove |
| Successor1: | James Morrison |
| Birth Date: | 8 July 1868 |
| Children: | 10, including William |
| Parents: | William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor Helen Chaplin |
| Party: | Conservative |
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor, (8 July 1868 – 26 June 1930),[1] styled Viscount Folkestone from 1889 to 1900, was a British Conservative Party politician and a British Army officer.
Pleydell-Bouverie was the son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor and Helen Matilda Chaplin.[2] He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After two years' service as assistant private secretary to the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, from 1890 to 1892,[2] 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.[3] In November 1901 he was elected Mayor of Folkestone for the following year,[4] and when he vacated the office the following year he donated a sum equal to the salary to the Victoria Hospital.[5] During his year as Mayor, he received the German Emperor Wilhelm II on his visit to Shorncliffe to inspect a cavalry regiment in November 1902.[6]
Beyond political life, he was an officer in the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, the Wiltshire Regiment. He saw active service in South Africa in 1900 when he volunteered to serve in a company attached to a regular battalion during the Second Boer War. Leaving Southampton for Cape Town in February 1900,[7] he returned later the same year as he succeeded to the title on the death of his father. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel commanding the 4th Battalion, 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.[2]
He also chaired a royal commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded, between 1904 and 1908.[2] On 27 June 1919, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire.
Lord Radnor served as Governor of the French Hospital. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.[8]
Before inheriting the earldom, Pleydell-Bouverie married Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour, daughter of Charles Balfour (himself great-grandson of Robert Balfour, 4th of Balbirnie and nephew of Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie and Scottish nabob James Balfour), on 20 January 1891, and they had ten children:
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