Lieutenant-colonel John James Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave (31 July 17851835) was a

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officer. Waldegrave was the second son of the 4th Earl Waldegrave and was educated at

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. Upon his father's death in 1789, Waldegrave's elder brother

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inherited the former's titles, but Waldegrave soon inherited them (aged eight), when his brother drowned in the

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five years later. In 1797 he inherited from

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his famous residence,

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, in

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. On leaving Eton in 1801, Lord Waldegrave purchased a commission in the 55th Foot. He later transferred to the

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and in 1804 transferred to the 39th Foot as a

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without purchase. He later transferred to the 36th Foot and exchanged into the 7th Light Dragoons in 1805. He saw action during the

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. In 1808 he transferred to the 8th Garrison Battalion as a

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and a few months later exchanged into the

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. He exchanged into the 15th Light Dragoons in 1809 and into the

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in 1812. Eight months later he purchased the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the

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, which he commanded during the

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campaign. On his return home, he married his longtime lover, Anne King on 30 October 1815; they had had several children before their marriage and later had a further four. His daughter Lady Horatia married firstly in 1847 Capt. John Joseph II Webbe-Weston (died 1849) of

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and secondly John Wardlaw, brother of General Wardlaw.Harrison, Frederic, Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford. London, 1899, p.147 Lord Waldegrave was briefly a

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from 1830 to 1831 and died in 1835. He was succeeded by his eldest legitimate son, Hon. George Edward, and his wife remarried in 1839, to Dr Algernon Hicks. Waldegrave later transferred to the 98th Foot.

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