The son of the fourth earl; educated at Eton, he was a lieutenant-colonel who served in the Pensinsular War and at Waterloo; in 1815 he married Anne King in Paris. He inherited Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill from his mother, Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave.

REFERENCES TO John James Waldegrave, sixth earl Waldegrave:

Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 1 January 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Lord Holland to John Murray, November 1820 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Holland to John Murray, [December 1820?] in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Holland to John Murray, 21 December 1821 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, [1827?] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 23 November 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)