Abstract
WHEN POSTERITY considers us, wrote Edwin Chadwick in 1845, will surely be remembered that no one did more for the cause of freedom of trade than the Earl of Radnor.1 Alas, it has not been so. In all that has been written about the free-trade controversy, William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone, third earl of Radnor, is seldom if ever mentioned. In fact, while it is well-established that hereditary landlords were not of one mind on the issue of protection versus free trade,2 little attention has been paid to the efforts made by great landowners to advance the economic dicta of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.3 In
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