The Hon. George Waldgrave (later Waldegrave-Leslie), 3rd

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politician.

Life

He was born on 30 September 1825, the youngest son of the 8th Earl Waldegrave, and his wife Elizabeth Whitbread. His older brother was

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who became Bishop of Carlisle. During the invasion scare of 1859 he raised the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers out of the Hastings Rifle Club, which in all but name was the successor of the old Cinque Ports Volunteers of about 1789. Lady Waldegrave allowed them to set up a rifle range shooting across Ecclesbourne Glen, which they used for many years. Most of the volunteers provided their own rifles and the corps funded its own uniforms. By the middle of 1859 it had reached 70 members, and was officially adopted on 17 December 1859.'The Volunteers in Hastings' at Drill Hall Project.
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and was MP for

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from 1864–68. On 22 January 1861, he had married

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, adopted the name Waldegrave-Leslie and differenced the Leslie Arms with a

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ermine and a red rose on the crest (for his use only). He died on 8 July 1904.

References

Sources

* * Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84884-211-3.

External links

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The Drill Hall Project
1825 births 1904 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies George Waldegrave-Leslie UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 Younger sons of earls {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub