Feb. 14, 1797; and by Admiral Duncan, Oct. 11, same year; and to deposit the flags taken on those occasions, as well as the colours of the Dutch Fleet, captured by Sir George K. Elphinstone, Aug. 18, 1796[1]. Fifteen Flag-Officers and twenty-six Captains attended the procession, and at the end of the first lesson, entered in two divisions, right and left of the King’s chair, and advancing to the altar, there deposited the trophies of their valour.
When Sir John Jervis was raised to the Peerage, and the other Flag-Officers under his command were created Baronets, for their conduct in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, the latter rank was offered to Vice-Admiral Waldegrave; this, however, he declined, as being inferior to that which he then held as an Earl’s son. On the 29th Dec. 1800, he was created a Peer of Ireland, by the title of Baron Radstock. His Lordship was promoted to the rank of Admiral, Apr. 29, 1802, since which time he has not been employed. At the public funeral of the gallant Nelson, Lord Radstock attended the body by water from Greenwich; and was one of the supporters of the Chief Mourner, the late Sir Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet. He was nominated a G.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815.
His lordship married at Smyrna, in 1785, to Cornelia, second daughter of David Van Lennep, Esq. Chief of the Dutch Factory at that place, by whom he has had a numerous issue. Two of his sons are in the navy, the eldest of whom, Captain the Hon. George-Granville Waldegrave, is heir to the title.
