Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock

Irish missionary and baron

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1833

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 08-Dec-1913

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock

  • Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock (10 April 1833, London – 8 December 1913, Paris) was a British missionary and a Peer of Ireland.
  • He became the 3rd Baron Radstock on the death of his father Granville George Waldegrave in 1857.
  • Radstock married Susan Calcraft (1833–1892) on 16 July 1858 in Trinity Church, Marylebone.
  • She was the youngest daughter of John Hales Calcraft, MP for Wareham, and Lady Caroline Montagu, daughter of William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester.
  • In 1889, they acquired the Mayfield estate in Weston, Southampton.As a result of a spiritual crisis during the Crimean War, Redstock with his wife joined the Plymouth brothers' "free" church in Bristol.
  • It was a community of the so-called Open Brethren, led by prominent theologian and missionary George Müller.Radstock is perhaps best known for his work as a missionary during the Great Russian Awakening.
  • In 1874, he travelled to St Petersburg as part of his missionary work, trips that were repeated in 1875–6 and 1878.

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