Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone was an English politician, known as Sir Jacob Bouverie, 3rd Baronet from 1737 to 1747.
Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Falkestone by Thomas Gainsborough
Longford Castle, Wiltshire
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Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone
…on 29 June 1747 and was appointed one of the deputy lieutenants of Wiltshire on 8 November 1750. In 1755 he was elected the first president of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (now the Royal Society of Arts). He married, firstly, Mary Clarke on 31 January 1724 in St Paul's Cathedral, London; she was the daughter of Bartholomew…
The RSA building (18th-century engraving)
The First Meeting of the Society of Arts at Rawthmell's Coffee House, 22 March 1754
James Barry, "Distribution of Premiums in the Society of Arts", 1777-84
Vulcan medal from the Royal Society of Arts