Edward Bouverie

Edward Bouverie (20 September 1760 – 30 December 1824) was an English politician.

Early life Bouverie was born on 20 September 1760. He was the third son of William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor and, his second wife, Rebecca Alleyne, daughter of John Alleyne, of Four Hills, Barbados, and sister of Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet. He was the half-brother of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, and the full brother of William Henry Bouverie and Bartholomew Bouverie.

His paternal grandparents were Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone and Mary Clarke (the daughter of Bartholomew Clarke, merchant of Hardingstone and Mary (née Young), sister and sole heir to Hitch Younge MP).

In 1773, at age 13, he was painted by Thomas Gainsborough as a youth in the style of Anthony van Dyck. Bouverie was educated at Harrow in and St Alban Hall, Oxford in 1778, before earning his BA from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1781.

Personal life On 24 May 1782, Bouverie married Lady Catherine Murray (1760–1783), the eldest daughter of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Charlotte Stewart (eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Galloway). She died, without surviving children, on 7 July 1783.