Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock
Appearance
Baron Radstock | |
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Born | 24 September 1786 |
Died | 11 May 1857 |
Allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1798–1857 |
Rank | Vice Admiral of the Red |
Commands | HMS Minorca HMS Thames HMS Volontaire |
Battles/wars | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Vice-Admiral Granville George Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock CB (24 September 1786 – 11 May 1857) was a British naval officer.
Royal Navy
The eldest son of the 1st Baron Radstock, Waldegrave joined the Royal Navy in 1798 and rose through the ranks, becoming a captain in 1807, rear admiral in 1841, vice admiral of the White in 1853 and the Red in 1855. From 1831–37, he was a Naval aide-de-camp to King William IV and to Queen Victoria from 1837–1841.
Family life
On 7 August 1823, he had married Esther Caroline Paget (1800–1874) and they had three children:
- Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock (1833–1913)
- Hon. Catherine Esther (d. 1898), married Sir Thomas Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet.
- Hon. Elizabeth Cornelia (died unmarried, 1903)
Arms
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Death
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Lord Radstock died in 1857 and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son. He is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery above the Lebanon Circle.[2]
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
References
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
- ^ Cansick, Frederick Teague (1872). The Monumental Inscriptions of Middlesex Vol 2. J Russell Smith. p. 120. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.