77. Walter¹⁰ Pleydell Bouverie (Edward⁹, William⁸, Jacob⁷, William⁶ de Bouverie, Jacob⁵, William⁴ des Bouverie, Sir Edward³ des Bouveries, Edward², Laurens¹) was born 5/07/1848. Walter died 20/05/1893 at 44 years of age.

He married twice. He married Edith Katherine Lascelles. Edith was the daughter of Reverend James Walter Lascelles. He married Mary Bridgeman Simpson 22/02/1876. Mary was the daughter of Reverend William Bridgeman Simpson. Mary died 18/01/1880.

Walter Pleydell Bouverie and Edith Katherine Lascelles had the following children:

103 i. Elizabeth¹¹ Pleydell Bouverie.

104 ii. Humphrey Pleydell Bouverie was born 10/09/1883.

105 iii. Nancy Pleydell Bouverie was born 10/06/1885.

106 iv. Mary Pleydell Bouverie was born 13/12/1887. Mary died 12/04/1945 in Bunters, Heytesbury, Wiltshire, at 57 years of age.

Walter Pleydell Bouverie and Mary Bridgeman Simpson had the following children:

107 v. Mildred Alice Pleydell Bouverie was born 10/02/1877. She married Charles Hingston. (See Charles Hingston for the continuation of this line.)

108 vi. Sybil Pleydell Bouverie was born 13/12/1878. Sybil died 6/12/1946 in County Wicklow, Ireland, at 67 years of age. She married Mervyn Richard Wingfield 1903. Mervyn was born 16/07/1880. Mervyn died 21/03/1947 in County Wicklow, Ireland, at 66 years of age. i0 From The Times, March 22, 1947

Viscount Powerscourt, who died yesterday at his home in County Wicklow at the age of 66, was chairman of the hospitals' committee which organized the Irish sweepstake. A Liberal Unionist and a Protestant, he had been his Majesty's Lieutenant for County Wicklow, and in 1921 was elected a Senator of Southern Ireland.

The Right Hon. Sir Mervyn Richard Wingfield, K.P., M.V.O., Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt, County Wicklow, and Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield, County Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland. Baron Powerscourt, of Powerscourt, County Wicklow, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, was born on July 16, 1880, the elder son of the seventh Viscount and Lady Julia Coke, eldest daughter of Thomas William, second Earl of Leicester. The eighth Viscount, who succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1904, served in the Irish Guards. From 1906 to 1907 he was Comptroller of the Household to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Aberdeen, and in 1910 became his Majesty's Lieutenant for County Wicklow, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Dublin.

Lord Powerscourt married in 1903, when he was still Mervyn Wingfield, Sybil, the second daughter of the late Major Walter Pleydell-Bouverie, of Market Lavington, Wiltshire, grandson of the third Earl of Radnor. Lady Powerscourt died last December. There were two sons and a daughter of the marriage, but the second son died in 1925. The new Viscount is the Hon. Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, who was born on August 22, 1905. From The Times, December 7, 1946

Viscountess Powerscourt died yesterday at her home in County Wicklow. She was Sybil, daughter of the late Major Walter Pleydell-Bouverie, and married the eighth Viscount Powerscourt in 1903. She was Chief of the Girl Guides Association of Ireland and a Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

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