Edward des Bouverie

Sir Edward des Bouverie, 2nd Baronet (1688 – 21 November 1736) was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1719 to 1734.

He trained as a merchant and was sent as an apprentice at the age of 12 to an uncle Sir Christopher des Bouverie at Aleppo.

Edward des Bouverie succeeded on his father's death in the baronetcy on 19 May 1717, in which year he purchased the estate of Longford Castle, in Britford, south Wiltshire from Lord Coleraine.

Her father was Commissioner of Excise and her elder sister, Anne Smyth married Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde.

[2] des Bouverie was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury on 24 January 1719 on petition after a by-election.

des Bouverie bought Longford Castle; one tower was demolished and great extensions were carried out by later generations of the family – mainly as Earls of Radnor (a title recreated in 1765 for his great-nephew)