Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock

Caricature by Adriano Cecioni in Vanity Fair , August 1872

Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock (in German texts mostly: Lord Radstock , born April 10, 1833 in London , † December 8, 1913 in Paris ) was a British nobleman (in the Peerage of Ireland ) and missionary .

family

When his father Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock died in 1857, he inherited his title as 3rd Baron Radstock . Radstock married Susan Calcraft (1833-1892) on July 16, 1858 in Trinity Church, Marylebone . Calcraft was the youngest daughter of John Hales Calcraft, the House of Representatives for the former constituency Wareham , and Lady Caroline Montagu, daughter of William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester . In 1889 they purchased the Mayfield Park property in Weston, Southampton .

Life

After graduating from Oxford University , Radstock became an officer. During a deployment in the Crimean War in 1855 he fell seriously ill and turned to evangelical Christianity through this crisis. After returning to England, he and his wife joined the so-called “ open brothers ” around Georg Müller in Bristol . Radstock held evangelism meetings, initially only in private, later by invitation in various places in England. In 1866 Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker was converted by him , whom he later brought to Russia to look after the new converts.

An invitation to Russia arose from an evangelism before Russian nobles in Paris in 1868. Radstock traveled to St. Petersburg in 1874, 1875 to 1876 and 1878 for evangelism and was able to trigger a revival in aristocratic circles there. He especially influenced Vasily Alexandrowitsch Paschkow (1831-1902), after whom the new movement in Russia was called Pashkovians . Even Modest Modestowitsch von Korff , court marshal and master of ceremonies at the tsar, was among the converts. After resistance from the Orthodox Church and Radstock was no longer allowed to enter Russia, he turned to India. Lecture tours also made him known in the revival movement in Germany. Despite his position, he lived very simply and was involved in the deprived areas of London.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harold H. Rowdon, "Waldegrave, Granville Augustus William, third Baron Radstock (1833-1913)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2006
2. ^ Southampton City Council
3. ↑ David G. Fountain: Lord Radstock and the Russian Awakening. Mayflower Christian Books, Southampton 1988. ISBN 0-907821-04-9

Web links

• obituary

literature

• A. Trotter: Lord Radstock: an interpretation and a record . Hodder and Stoughton, London 1914.
• Edward Trotter, Mrs.: Lord Radstock . London 1915.
• Samuel John Gurney Hoarehe Templewood: The fourth seal. The end of a Russian chapter. (Autobiography). Heinemann, London 1930.
• Sophie Lieven: A seed that brought abundant fruit. From the revival movement in Petersburg at the turn of the 19th century . Brunnen-Verlag, Basel 1952.
• Edmund Heier: Religious Schism in the Russian Aristocracy 1860-1900. Radstockism and Pashkovism . Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht 1970. ISBN 978-94-010-3228-5
• David G. Fountain: Lord Radstock and the Russian Awakening. Mayflower Christian Books, Southampton 1988. ISBN 978-0-907821-04-5
• Nikolaj S. Leskov; James Y. Muckle: Schism in high society - Velikosvětskij raskol <engl.>. Lord Radstock and his followers. Nottingham; Bramcote 1995 ISBN 0-9517853-5-4
• Sharyl Corrado: Early Russian Evangelicals: Ministry Lessons for Today. East-West Church & Ministry Report 8 (Fall 2000), 11-13. ISSN  1069-5664
• Rolf Scheffbuch: Counts and princes in the service of the highest king. Hänssler-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-7751-4931-0
• Andrey P. Puzynin: The tradition of the Gospel Christians. A study of their identity and theology during the Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods . Pickwick Publ., Eugene (Or) 2011. ISBN 978-1-60608-999-6

predecessor	Office	successor
Granville Waldegrave	Baron Radstock 1857–1913	Granville Waldegrave