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Lot Essay
The motto PATRIA CARA CARIOR LIBERTAS and the arms are those of the Earls of Radnor for Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA (1750-1828), styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Radnor.
Educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, Jacob was returned to the House of Commons for Salisbury upon his coming of age in 1771. In 1779, he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1789 he became a director of the French Hospital, known as La Providence, later serving as governor. The French Hospital was founded in 1718 in Finsbury on behalf of poor French Protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain, and it was probably then that he was gifted these toilet boxes. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.
Educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford, Jacob was returned to the House of Commons for Salisbury upon his coming of age in 1771. In 1779, he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1789 he became a director of the French Hospital, known as La Providence, later serving as governor. The French Hospital was founded in 1718 in Finsbury on behalf of poor French Protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain, and it was probably then that he was gifted these toilet boxes. Successive Earls of Radnor were governors of the hospital from the eighteenth century to 2015.