Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA (4 March 1750 – 27 January 1828), styled Hon.

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1771 to 1776 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor.

Jacob was educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, from which he took a BA in 1770 and an MA in 1773.

[4] On 12 February 1795, Radnor was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was appointed High Steward of Wallingford in 1799.

[citation needed] Radnor resided at Longford Castle and his mother's property, Coleshill House, and married Hon.