Edward Waldegrave [SEP] date of death
Edward Waldegrave
Sir Edward Waldegrave (c. 1516 – 1 September 1561) was an English courtier and Catholic recusant.
Family.
Edward Waldegrave was the eldest son of John Waldegrave (d.1543) by Lora Rochester, daughter of Sir John Rochester of Essex, and sister of Sir Robert Rochester. He was the grandson of Sir Edward Waldegrave of Bures, Suffolk, and a descendant of Sir Richard Waldegrave, Speaker of the House of Commons.
Career.
In 1547 Waldegrave joined the household of Princess Mary, and
Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave
Sarah Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (1787–18 April 1873) was a British philanthropist.
Sarah Whitear was born in 1787, the daughter of Rev. William Whitear, a prebendary of Chichester, at Hastings Old Town Rectory. She firstly married Edward Milward, who later served as Mayor of Hastings several times and she inherited considerable wealth on his death. On 8 December 1846, aged 59, she married widower William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave, who had inherited the title in September of that year.