George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave

George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton, PC, ADC (23 November 1751 – 22 October 1789) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.

The Earl Waldegrave

The eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Waldegrave, he was educated at Eton and was commissioned into the 3rd Foot Guards in 1768. He purchased a Lieutenancy in 1773. On 16 May 1778 he transferred to the Coldstream Guards as a Captain-Lieutenant and on 4 October 1779, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the new 87th Regiment of Foot (until 1783).[1] In 1788 he was briefly made Colonel of the 63rd Regiment of Foot, transferring in 1789 to be Colonel of the 14th Regiment of Foot, a position he held equally briefly before his death later that year.[2]

He inherited his father's titles in 1784. On 5 May 1782, Waldegrave married his first cousin, Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave and they had five children.

Ancestry

References

  1. Mackinnon, Daniel (1833). Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards. II. London: Richard Bentley. pp. 492–493.
  2. "WALDEGRAVE, George, Visct. Chewton (1751-1789)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Alexander Forrester
George Hay
Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme
17741780
With: George Hay 1774–1779
Viscount Trentham 1779–1780
Succeeded by
Viscount Trentham
Sir Archibald Macdonald
Military offices
New regiment Colonel of the 87th Regiment of Foot
1779–1783
Disbandment
Preceded by
Alexander Leslie
Colonel of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
1788–1789
Succeeded by
The Earl of Crawford
Preceded by
John Douglas
Colonel of the 14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
1789
Succeeded by
George Hotham
Political offices
Preceded by
Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1782–1784
Succeeded by
Lord Herbert
Preceded by
The Earl of Waldegrave
Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte
1784–1789
Vacant
Title next held by
The Earl Harcourt
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
John Waldegrave
Earl Waldegrave
1784–1789
Succeeded by
George Waldegrave


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