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)"
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and a baron in the

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Biography

Waldegrave was born in 1833, the only son of

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 an ...

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

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, Radstock with his wife joined the Plymouth brothers' "free" church in

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. It was a community of the so-called

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, led by prominent theologian and missionary

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. Radstock was missionary during the "Great Russian Awakening". In 1874, he travelled to St Petersburg as part of his missionary work, trips that were repeated in 1875–76, and in 1878.

Marriage and children

Radstock married Susan Charlotte Calcraft (1833–1892) on 16 July 1858 in

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, London. She was the youngest daughter of John Hales Calcraft, MP for Wareham, and Lady Caroline Montagu, daughter of

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. In 1889, they acquired the Mayfield estate in

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. Lord and Lady Radstock had nine children: * Granville George Waldegrave, 4th Baron Radstock (born 1 September 1859, died 2 April 1937) *

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Katherine Waldegrave (born 1860, died 4 December 1874) * Hon Edith Caroline Waldegrave (born 1862, died 15 November 1925) * Hon Mabel Waldegrave (born 1863, died 12 December 1929) * Hon Constance Waldegrave (born 1865, died 19 June 1945) * An unnamed son (born and died 1866) *

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 ...

(born 15 July 1867, died 17 September 1953) * Hon John Waldegrave (born 30 December 1868, died 4 April 1901) * Hon Mary Waldegrave (born 1870)

Death

Lord Radstock died in Paris on 8 December 1913 and was succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Granville.

Arms

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radstock, Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron 1833 births 1913 deaths Clergy from London British Plymouth Brethren Barons in the Peerage of Ireland

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 Univ ...

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