[2] 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).
[2] Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Downton in December 1779, but was unseated on petition already in February of the following year.
In 1829 he had been appointed a Metropolitan Commissioner for Lunacy, which he remained until his death.
Bouverie was seldom active in the House of Commons and is not known to have ever spoken.
[2] On 9 March 1779, Bouverie married Mary Wyndham Arundell, daughter of the Hon.