John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave

54th Regiment of Foot
54th Regiment of Foot
Battles/wars	Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War Battle of Venta del Pozo; ; Hundred Days; ;

British peer and British Army

officer.

Waldegrave was the second son of the 4th Earl Waldegrave and was educated at Eton. Upon his father's death in 1789, Waldegrave's elder brother George inherited the former's titles, but Waldegrave soon inherited them (aged eight), when his brother drowned in the Thames five years later.^{[citation needed]} In 1797 he inherited from Horace Walpole his famous residence, Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham.^[1]

On leaving Eton in 1801, Lord Waldegrave purchased a commission in the

54th Foot, which he commanded during the Hundred Days

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

Lord of the Bedchamber 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

.

Ancestry

Ancestors of John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave

References

^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Waldegrave s.v. John James (1785–1835)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.
^ Harrison, Frederic, Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford. London, 1899, p.147

External links

Stirnet: Waldegrave1 (subscription required)

Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by George Waldegrave	Earl Waldegrave 1794–1835	Succeeded by George Waldegrave

[EB1911-1] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Waldegrave s.v. John James (1785–1835)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.

[2] Harrison, Frederic, Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford. London, 1899, p.147

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