Philip Bouverie-Pusey

{{Short description|English heir & landowner (1746-1828)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{infobox person

| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Philip Pusey

| honorific_suffix =

| image = Portrait of a gentleman said to be the Honorable Philip Bouverie-Pusey (by George Romney).jpg

| caption = portrait of a gentleman said to be
the Honorable Philip Bouverie-Pusey,
painting by George Romney, 1790.

| birth_name = Philip Bouverie

| birth_date = {{birth date|1746|10|08|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Westminster, London

| death_date = {{dda|1828|04|14|1746|10|08|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| parents = Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone
Elizabeth Marsham

| spouse = {{marriage|Lady Lucy Cave|20 August 1798}}

| children = 9, including Philip, Edward

| relations = William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor (half-brother)
Edward Bouverie (half-brother)
Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney (grandfather)
Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet (grandfather)
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (uncle)
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney (cousin)

}}

Hon. Philip Bouverie-Pusey (8 October 1746 – 14 April 1828) was an English heir and landowner.

Early life

Pusey was born Philip Bouverie on 8 October 1746 in Westminster, London. He was the only surviving son of Jacob Bouverie and, his second wife, the former Elizabeth Marsham. Shortly after his birth, his father was created Viscount Folkestone and Baron Longford on 29 June 1747. From his father's first marriage to Mary Clarke, he had many half-siblings, including William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor,{{cite web |title=Radnor, Earl of (GB, 1765) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/radnor1765.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=15 July 2020}} Hon. Anne Bouverie (wife of Hon. George Talbot, son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot), Hon. Mary Bouverie (wife of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury), Hon. Charlotte Bouverie (wife of John Grant), Hon. Harriet Bouverie (wife of Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet), and the Hon. Edward Bouverie (father of Edward Bouverie and Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie).

His mother was the eldest daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney and the former Elizabeth Shovell (daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell). Through his uncle, Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney, he was first cousin of Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney. His father, a son of Sir William des Bouverie, 1st Baronet and his second wife Anne Urry (daughter and heiress of David Urry of London),{{cite web |title=Folkestone, Viscount (GB, 1747) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/folkestone1747.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=15 July 2020}} dropped the prefix "des" in his surname by Act of Parliament on 22 April 1737,{{cite book | last=Doyle | first=James William Edmund | authorlink=James William Edmund Doyle | title=The Official Baronage of England, v. 1 | place=London | publisher=Longmans, Green | year=1886 | page=758 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-kIAAAAIAAJ}} and inherited Longford Castle and his father's baronetcy from his brother Edward in 1736.{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland: In Two Volumes. England. 1 |date=1814 |publisher=G. Woodfall |page=263 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9q9AAAAAcAAJ&dq=Jacob+Bouverie,+1st+Viscount+Folkestone&pg=RA2-PA263 |accessdate=15 July 2020 |language=en}}

Career

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In 1784, Philip took the surname of Pusey to inherit the manorial Pusey estate in the Vale of White Horse,{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=George William Erskine |title=Dr. Pusey |date=1907 |publisher=A. R. Mowbray & Company, limited |pages=2–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-Bo1wE_BtEC&dq=Philip+Bouverie-Pusey+(1746%E2%80%931828),&pg=PA2 |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en}} which had been settled at the north-west Berkshire estate of that name since the eleventh century. His father's sister, the former Jane Bouverie, had married John Allen-Pusey and when he died without issue,{{cite book |title=The Berkshire Archæological Journal |date=1932 |publisher=Berkshire Archaeological Society |pages=52–55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRISAAAAIAAJ |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en}} Allen-Pusey's sisters selected Philip to inherit the estate (which had been bequeathed to Allen, who took the additional name of Pusey, by his uncle, Charles Pusey, who died in 1710).{{cite book |title=Refugees Naturalized before 1681 |date=1886 |publisher=Turnbull & Spears |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ra6nNkiTDmUC&dq=Philip+Bouverie-Pusey+(1746%E2%80%931828),&pg=PA172 |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en}} The estate included a large country house, known as Pusey House, designed by John Sanderson for Allen-Pusey in 1753.{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/pusey_house.html|title=Pusey House|website=Royal Berkshire History}}

Personal life

On 20 August 1798, he was married to Lady Lucy Cave (née Sherard) (1771–1858) at St George's Hanover Square Church. Lady Lucy was the widow of Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet (former MP for Leicestershire) and daughter of the Rev. Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough and Jane (née Reeve) Sherard. Her older brother was Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough. Together, they lived at Pusey House and at Grosvenor Square in London, and were the parents of four sons and five daughters, including:

  • Philip Bouverie-Pusey (1799–1855), who married Lady Emily Frances Theresa Herbert, daughter of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon and Kitty Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, in 1822.{{cite web |title=PUSEY, Philip (1799-1855), of Pusey, nr. Faringdon, Berks. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/pusey-philip-1799-1855 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |accessdate=20 July 2020}}
  • Edward Bouverie-Pusey (1800–1882), a religious professor and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement who married Margaret Raymond-Parker, daughter of John Raymond-Barker of Fairford Park.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1879 |publisher=London, Harrison |url=http://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhera01byuburk#page/76/mode/2up |accessdate=20 July 2020}}
  • Elizabeth Bouverie-Pusey (1803–1883), who married the Rev. James H. Montagu Luxmoore, son of Rt. Rev. John Luxmoore and brother of Charles Scott Luxmoore.{{cite web |last1=Liddon, D.D. |first1=Henry Parry |title=Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/pusey/liddon/1.1.html |website=anglicanhistory.org |publisher=Longmans |accessdate=20 July 2020 |location=London |date=1894}}
  • Charlotte Bouverie-Pusey (1807–1883), who married Richard Lynch Cotton in 1839.{{cite web |title=Academic Dress {{!}} The Rev. the Vice Chancellor of Oxford, Nov. 1852 / and the two former Vice Chancellors. |url=https://www.sandersofoxford.com/shop/product/the-rev-the-vice-chancellor-of-oxford-nov-1852-and-the-two-former-vice-chancellors/ |website=www.sandersofoxford.com |publisher=Sanders of Oxford |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en}}
  • William Bouverie-Pusey (1810–1888), the Rector at Langley, Kent who married Catherine Freeman, daughter of Thomas Freeman.{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets |date=1902 |publisher=Dean & Son, Limited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLc7AQAAMAAJ&dq=William+Bouverie-Pusey+Catherine+Freeman&pg=PA668 |accessdate=20 July 2020 |language=en}}

Pusey died on 14 April 1828 and his widow, Lady Lucy Pusey, died on 27 March 1858.

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