Resultado de búsqueda
James "Jamie" Sherbrooke Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave (born 8 December 1940), styled Viscount Chewton until 1995, is a British peer and businessman. Waldegrave is the son of Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave (1905–1995), and Mary Hermione Grenfell (1909–1995), who studied at Somerville College, Oxford. [1]
5 de may. de 2024 · 617 × 677; 1,001 bytes. 1 reference. described by source. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900. statement is subject of. Waldegrave, James (1715-1768) (DNB00) 1 reference. Commons category. James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave.
5 May 1782 his cousin Lady Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave (b. 25 Mar 1760; d. 29 Jan 1816; bur .at Great Packington, co. Warwick), 1st dau. and cohrss. of his paternal uncle James [Waldegrave], 2nd Earl Waldegrave, by his second wife Maria Walpole, 2nd illegit. dau. of Hon Sir Edward Walpole
In 1729, he had been created Earl Waldegrave and on his death in 1741, was succeeded by his eldest son, James . Sir James inherited Hever Castle in Kent which had remained in the Waldegrave family for 160 years. It was deemed too small for Sir James and he sold it in the early 1700s to Sir William Humfreys, Lord Mayor of London (1714).
25 de jul. de 2002 · The Memoirs of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715-63) rank with those of Horace Walpole and Lord Hervey as classics of eighteenth-century political literature. They have an additional significance as a record of the momentous political crisis of 1754-7, which heralded the break-up of the early Hanoverian party system and laid the foundations for the pattern of alignments of the last half of the ...
Waldegrave was the youngest son of the 1st Earl Waldegrave. [1] [2] He joined the 1st Regiment of Foot in 1735, rising to the rank of captain in 1739. He became a lieutenant-colonel in the 3rd Regiment of Foot in 1743 and fought in 1745 at the Battle of Fontenoy, where he was wounded, during the War of the Austrian Succession. [1]
