title: Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock
text: # Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock
  
  Vice-Admiral Granville George Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock CB (24 September 1786 – 11 May 1857) was a British naval officer.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Radstock was born in London in 1786, the elder son of Admiral William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock and his wife, Cornelia Jacoba van Lennep. He succeeded to the peerage upon the death of his father in 1825.
  
  ## Royal Navy
  
  The eldest son of the 1st Baron Radstock, Radstock joined the Royal Navy in 1798 and rose through the ranks, becoming a captain in 1807, rear admiral in 1841, vice admiral of the White in 1853 and the Red in 1855.
  
  From 1831 to 1837, he was a Naval aide-de-camp to King William IV and to Queen Victoria from 1837–1841.
  
  ## Marriage and children
  
  On 7 August 1823, he married Esther Caroline Paget (1800–1874). They had three children:
  
  * Hon Elizabeth Cornelia Waldegrave (born 1824, died 16 April 1903), unmarried.
  * Hon Catherine Esther Waldegrave (born 24 May 1826, died 3 July 1898), married Sir Thomas Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Baronet
  * Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock (born 10 April 1833, died 8 December 1913)
  
  ## Honours
  
  Radstock was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
  
  ## Death
  
  Lord Radstock died in London in 1857, aged 70, and was succeeded in the peerage by his only son, Granville. He is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery above the Lebanon Circle.
  
  ## Arms
  
  Coat of arms of Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock :
  
  * CrestOut of a ducal coronet Or a plum of five ostrich feathers per pale Argent and Gules a crescent Sable for difference.
  * EscutcheonPer pale Argent and Gules a crescent Sable for difference.
  * SupportersDexter a talbot reguardant wings expanded and elevated holding in the dexter claw a thunderbolt all Proper.
  * MottoSt Vincent
  