A portrait of his Lordship, by W. Owen, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1805. On the 23rd May, 1815, he laid the first stone of the Southwark Bridge.
Lord Keith married, first, April 9, 1787, Jane, daughter and sole heiress of William Mercer, of Aldie, co. Perth, Esq., and by her (who died Dec. 12, 1789,) had issue an only child, Margaret-Mercer Elphinstone, on whom the English Barony of Keith is in remainder, on failure of his Lordship’s issue male. Married, secondly, January 10, 1808, Hester-Maria, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry Thrale, of Streatham, co. Surrey, Esq. (the intimate friend of Dr. Johnson, the great lexicographer,) and M.P. for Southwark, in 1768, and 1775. By this lady the Viscount has issue, Georgiana-Augusta-Henrietta, born Dec. 12, 1809.
His Lordship’s eldest daughter married in 1817, to Count Flahault, who served as Aid-de-Camp to Buonaparte at the battle of Waterloo.
RIGHT HONORABLE
WILLIAM LORD RADSTOCK,
(Of Castletown in the Queen’s County, Ireland.)
Admiral of the Red; Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath; and President of the Naval Charitable Society[1].
The family of Waldegrave, formerly written Walgrave, of which this nobleman is a member, is denominated from a place of their own name in Northamptonshire, where they resided before the year 1200. His Lordship is the second son of John, third Earl of Waldegrave, by Lady Elizabeth, aunt of the present Marquis of Stafford[2], and was born July 9, 1758.
- ↑ The Naval Charitable Society was instituted in 1791, for the relief of the indigent orphans, widows, and children of Sea Officers, and also of Officers themselves reduced by misfortune to indigence. From that period to the latter end of the year 1821, acceptable and necessary relief was supplied in no less than two thousand one hundred and ninety-two cases of distress. The balance in hand at the commencement of 1822, was 1,147l. 10s. 1d. besides 30,000l. Consols. Petitions from non-subscribers, or their relatives, are deemed inadmissible. Lord Radstock is also a Vice-President of several benevolent institutions, unconnected with the Navy.
- ↑ Lord Radstock’s uncle, James, the second Earl of Waldegrave, mar-
