BOUVERIE, Sir Jacob, 3rd Bt. (?1694-1761), of Longford Castle, Wilts.

Sir Jacob Bouverie, a Turkey merchant, inherited £18,000 from his father in 1717,PCC 89 Whitfield. and estates near Folkestone from his uncle in 1722. In 1737 he gave the Georgia Society £1,000 from charitable bequests left by his father and brother, for which he was made a trustee of the Society in March 1737 and a common councillor a year later.HMC Egmont Diary, ii. 320-21, 372, 469. Returned as a Tory for Salisbury in 1741, he voted against the Government in all recorded divisions, in spite of which he was made a peer at the dissolution in 1747. According to Horace Walpole, who calls him ‘a considerable Jacobite’, he bought his peerage from the King’s mistress, Lady Yarmouth, for £12,000.To Mann, 26 June 1747. Establishing a personal interest in one seat at Salisbury, which was held by members of his family for nearly 100 years, he died 17 Feb. 1761.