[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).
[3][4] In 1773, at age 13, he was painted by Thomas Gainsborough as a youth in the style of Anthony van Dyck.
In 1794, he was wounded in a duel with the 4th Earl of Tankerville who reportedly "resented his attentions to his daughter Lady Anne Bennet.
Upon the Prince of Wales' ascension to the throne in 1820 as King George IV, Bouverie became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, holding that tile until his death in 1824.
[6] 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).