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Lord Radstock
Baron Radstock, of Castletown, County Laois, Castletown in the County Laois, Queen's County, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Vice-Admiral the Honourable William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, William Waldegrave. He was the second son of John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave (see Earl Waldegrave for earlier history of the family). He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He was a Vice-Admiral of the Red. On his death, the title passed to his son, the third Baron. He is best remembered for his work as a missionary in Russia. Two of his sons, the fourth and fifth Barons, both succeeded in the title. The barony became extinct on the latter's death in 1953. Despite its territorial designation and the fact that it was in the Peerage of Ireland, the title referred to Radstock in Somerset. Barons Radstock (1800) *William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock (1753–1825) *Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock, Granville George Waldegrave, 2nd B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock (1753-1825) By James Northcote
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navy, navies. In the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general officer, general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. Etymology The word in Middle English comes from Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-French , "commander", from Medieval Latin , . These evolved from the Arabic () – (), “king, prince, chief, leader, Nobility, nobleman, lord, a governor, commander, or person who rules over a number of people,” and (), the Arabic article answering to “the.” In Arabic, admiral is also represented as (), where () means the sea. The 1818 edition of Samuel Johnson's ''A Dictionary of the English Language'', edited and revised by the Rev. Henry Todd (priest), Henry John Todd, states that the term “has been traced to the Arab. emir or amir, lord or commander, and the Greek language, Gr. , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_lieutenant_name = Mohammed Saddiq , high_sheriff_office =High Sheriff of Somerset , high_sheriff_name = Mrs Mary-Clare Rodwell (2020–21) , area_total_km2 = 4171 , area_total_rank = 7th , ethnicity = 98.5% White , county_council = , unitary_council = , government = , joint_committees = , admin_hq = Taunton , area_council_km2 = 3451 , area_council_rank = 10th , iso_code = GB-SOM , ons_code = 40 , gss_code = , nuts_code = UKK23 , districts_map = , districts_list = County council area: , MPs = * Rebecca Pow (C) * Wera Hobhouse ( LD) * Liam Fox (C) * David Warburton (C) * Marcus Fysh (C) * Ian Liddell-Grainger (C) * James Heappey (C) * Jacob Rees-Mogg (C) * John Penrose (C) , police = Avon and Somerset Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extinct Baronies In The Peerage Of Ireland
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radstock Escutcheon
Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about south-west of Bath and north-west of Frome. It is within the area of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset. The Radstock built-up area had a population of 9,419 at the 2011 Census. Radstock has been settled since the Iron Age, and its importance grew after the construction of the Fosse Way, a Roman road. The town grew after 1763, when coal was discovered in the area. Large numbers of mines opened during the 19th century, including several owned by the Waldegrave family, who had been Lords of the Manor since the Civil War. Admiral Lord Radstock, brother of George, fourth Earl Waldegrave, took the town's name as his title when created a Baron. The spoil heap of Writhlington colliery is now the Writhlington Site of Special Scientific Interest, which includes 3,000 tons of Upper Carboniferous spoil from which more than 1,400 insect fossil specim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronet Of A British Baron
A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. A coronet differs from other kinds of crowns in that a coronet never has arches, and from a tiara in that a coronet completely encircles the head, while a tiara does not. In other languages, this distinction is not made as usually the same word for ''crown'' is used irrespective of rank (german: Krone, nl, Kroon, sv, Krona, french: Couronne, etc.) Today, its main use is not as a headgear (indeed, many people entitled to a coronet never have a physical one created), but as a rank symbol in heraldry, adorning a coat of arms. Etymology The word stems from the Old French ''coronete'', a diminutive of ''co(u)ronne'' ('crown'), itself from the Latin ''corona'' (also 'wreath') and from the Ancient Greek ''κορώνη'' (''korōnē''; 'garland' or 'wreath'). Traditionally, such headgear is used by nobles and by princes and princesses in their coats of arms, rather than by monarchs, for whom the word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waldegrave (Royal Navy Officer)
Commander The Honourable John Montagu Granville Waldegrave, DSC RN (29 August 1905 – 18 February 1944) was a British naval commander during World War II. Early life Waldegrave was the only son of the Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock and his wife, Constance Marion Brodie. Naval service Waldegrave commanded the cruiser 1938–1939, and the sloop in 1939. He was awarded the DSC for anti-submarine work performed while commanding the ''Puffin''. From 1942 to 1943, he served in the Operations Division, attached to shore station . On 6 September 1943, he was assigned to the cruiser as executive officer. On 18 February 1944, ''Penelope'' was torpedoed by while returning from Anzio and Cmdr. Waldegrave was lost with the ship. Marriage and children On 29 June 1940, Waldegrave married Lady Hersey Boyle (11 July 1914 – 7 February 1993), second daughter of retired navy man Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow. They had two daughters:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock
Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock (15 July 1867 – 17 September 1953) was the second son of Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock and his wife, Susan Charlotte Calcroft. Early life and education Radstock was educated at Monkton Combe School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA degree in 1889. When his elder brother the 4th baron died without issue in 1937, he succeeded to the title of Baron Radstock of Castle Town, Queen's County, Ireland. Marriage and children Radstock married Constance Marion Brodie on 15 July 1898. They had three daughters and a son:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 * Rachel Elizabeth Waldegrave (born 12 May 1899, died 6 January 1900) * Hon Esther Constance Waldegrave (born 11 November 1900, died 17 April 1957) * Hon Elizabeth Alexandra Sophia Waldegrave (born 22 September 1902) * Commander Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Waldegrave, 4th Baron Radstock
Granville George Waldegrave, 4th Baron Radstock, CBE (1 September 1859 – 2 April 1937) was a baron in the Peerage of Ireland. Biography Radstock was the eldest son of Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock and his wife, Susan Charlotte Calcroft. He was educated at Repton School and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a BA degree. Radstock succeeded to the barony upon the death of his father on 8 December 1913. Honours Radstock was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Death Lord Radstock died on 2 April 1937, aged 77. He was unmarried and was succeeded in the peerage by his younger brother Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock (15 July 1867 – 17 September 1953) was the second son of Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock and his wife, Susan Charlotte Calcroft. Early life and education Radstock was educated at Monkton Combe .... Arms References thepeerage.com 1859 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock
Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock (10 April 1833 – 8 December 1913)Harold H. Rowdon"Waldegrave, Granville Augustus William, third Baron Radstock (1833–1913)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2006, accessed 19 August 2012 was a British missionary and a baron in the Peerage of Ireland. Biography Waldegrave was born in 1833, the only son of Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock and his wife Esther Caroline Paget. He became the 3rd Baron Radstock on the death of his father in 1857. On 25 April 1860, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the West Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps. He resigned his commission at the end of October 1866. As a result of a spiritual crisis during the Crimean War, Radstock with his wife joined the Plymouth brothers' "free" church in Bristol. It was a community of the so-called Open Brethren, led by prominent theologian and missionary George Müller. Radstock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock
Vice-Admiral Granville George Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock CB (24 September 1786 – 11 May 1857) was a British naval officer. Early life Radstock was born in London in 1786, the elder son of Admiral William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock and his wife, Cornelia Jacoba van Lennep. He succeeded to the peerage upon the death of his father in 1825. Royal Navy Radstock 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. Marriage and children On 7 August 1823, he married Esther Caroline Paget (1800–1874). They had three children: * Hon Elizabeth Cornelia Waldegrave (born 1824, died 16 April 1903), unmarried. * Hon Catherine Esther Waldegrave (born 24 May 1826, died 3 July 1898), married Sir Thomas Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet * Granville Augustus Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radstock
Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about south-west of Bath and north-west of Frome. It is within the area of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset. The Radstock built-up area had a population of 9,419 at the 2011 Census. Radstock has been settled since the Iron Age, and its importance grew after the construction of the Fosse Way, a Roman road. The town grew after 1763, when coal was discovered in the area. Large numbers of mines opened during the 19th century, including several owned by the Waldegrave family, who had been Lords of the Manor since the Civil War. Admiral Lord Radstock, brother of George, fourth Earl Waldegrave, took the town's name as his title when created a Baron. The spoil heap of Writhlington colliery is now the Writhlington Site of Special Scientific Interest, which includes 3,000 tons of Upper Carboniferous spoil from which more than 1,400 insect fossil specim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castletown, County Laois
Castletown () is a small village and also a parish in County Laois in Ireland. History The older Irish name for the town was ''Baile Chaisleáin Ua bhFoirchealláin'' (meaning "castle-town of Uí Fhoirchealláin"). This has been anglicised as ''Ballycashlan-Offerillan'' and ''Ballycaslane-Offeralane''. Uí Fhoirchealláin is the name of the parish and was added to distinguish it from another Castletown. According to an extract from ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'', published in 1837 by Samuel Lewis, Castletown was then "''a village in the Parish of Offerlane, barony of Upper Ossory, Queen’s county, and province of Leinster, 1 miles (S.by W.) from Mountrath; containing 367 inhabitants. It takes its name from an ancient castle, occupying a commanding situation on the bank of the River Nore, and which, in the early part of the 16th century, was garrisoned by Sir Oliver Norris, son-in-law of the Earl of Ormonde, with a view to curb the power of the Fitzpatricks, to whom i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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