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Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton
Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1886.

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (17 January 1832 – 16 March 1909) was an English Conservative Party politician from the Egerton family. He sat in the House of Commons from 1858 to 1883 when he inherited his peerage and was elevated to the House of Lords.

Life

Egerton was the son of the 1st Baron Egerton and his wife Lady Charlotte Loftus eldest daughter of the Marquis of Ely. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry.[1]

In 1858 Egerton was elected Member of Parliament for North Cheshire and held the seat until it was reorganised in 1868. He was then elected MP for Mid Cheshire and held the seat until 1883,[2] when he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Egerton. He was the second Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1887 to 1894. In 1897, he was created Earl Egerton.

Egerton was appointed Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum (Lord Lieutenant) of Cheshire in March 1900,[3] serving until 1905.

Egerton was chairman of the Church Defence Institution, and an Ecclesiastical Commissioner.

He died on 16 March 1909 at the age of 77.

Family

Egerton married on 15 October 1857 Lady Mary Amherst, the only daughter of the 2nd Earl Amherst. They had one child, Lady Gertrude Lucia Egerton, who later married the future 8th Earl of Albemarle. His first wife died in 1892 and on 8 August 1894, Lord Egerton married Alice Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, the widow of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

References

  1. ^ Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
  3. ^ "No. 27175". The London Gazette. 20 March 1900. p. 1876.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for North Cheshire
1858–1868
With: George Cornwall Legh 		Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire
1868–1883
With: George Cornwall Legh 1868–1873
Egerton Legh 1873–1876
Piers Egerton-Warburton 1876–1883 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire
1900–1905 		Succeeded by
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New creation Earl Egerton
1897–1909 		Extinct
Preceded by Baron Egerton
1883–1909 		Succeeded by

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