Present Representative, Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, 2nd Baronet, late
M.P. for Essex.
WALDEGRAVE OF NAVERSTOKE, EARL WALDEGRAVE 1729; BARONET 1685,
BARONET 1643.
[Illustration] An ancient family, which has been seated in many
counties, originally of Waldegrave, in Northamptonshire; afterwards
settled in Suffolk; about the latter end of the fifteenth century,
seised of lands in this county; and again we find them in Norfolk
and Somersetshire. Naverstock was granted by Queen Mary in 1553, the
Waldegraves having suffered for their attachment to the old faith at
the time of the Reformation. Leland thus mentions the family; "As
far as I could gather of young Walgreve, of the Courte, the eldest
house of the Walgreves cummith owt of the Town of Northampton or
ther about, and there yet remaineth in Northamptonshire a man of
landes of that name."
See Leland's Itinerary, iv. fol. 19; Morant's Essex, i. 181;
Brydges's Collins, iv. 232; and the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, ii.
p. 374, for an interesting memoir of Sir Richard Waldegrave, who
died in 1401, having been chosen Speaker of the House of Commons in
1381.
Younger branch, Baron Radstock, of Ireland, 1800, descended from the
younger brother of the fourth Earl Waldegrave.
ARMS.--_Per pale argent and gules_. This coat was borne by M.
Richard Waldeg've, as appears by the Roll of the reign of Richard
II.
Present Representative, William Frederick Waldegrave, 9th Earl
Waldegrave.