Thomas Egerton (killed 1599)
Sir Thomas Egerton | |
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| Member of Parliament for Cheshire | |
| In office 1597–1598 | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | England |
| Branch/service | Marines |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Azores (1597); Ireland (1599) |
Sir Thomas Egerton (born 1574, Cheshire – killed 1599, Ireland) was an English landowner, soldier and politician who represented Cheshire in the House of Commons from 1597 to 1598.
Life[edit]
The elder son of Sir Thomas Egerton (later Viscount Brackley), he was educated at Lincoln's Inn before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford (graduating BA 1591).[1]
Seated at Dodleston-in-Ridley in Cheshire and heir to his family's other estates in neighbouring counties, Egerton was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Denbighshire and Flintshire in 1591 and for Cheshire in 1592. He then became Clerk to the Exchequer of Chester in 1595,[2] before being returned de jure patris to Parliament in 1597.
With England under continued attack by Spain, in 1597 Egerton embarked on the Azores expedition and served with distinction. He received the accolade of the realm[3] and, in 1599, was commissioned as Captain to muster Cheshire militiamen for serving in Ireland under the Earl of Essex. During the Irish campaign, Egerton was killed in action, his body being returned for burial at St Mary's Church, Dodleston, with full military honours.[4]
Family[edit]
In 1591, Egerton married Elizabeth Venables, daughter of Thomas Venables, of Kinderton Hall, Cheshire (and aunt of Peter Venables MP), by whom he had three daughters (Elizabeth Dutton, Vere Booth, and Mary Leigh).[5] Lady Egerton, his dowager, remained resident at Ridley Hall, Cheshire until her death.[6]
Predeceasing his father, Sir Thomas' younger brother, the Hon. John Egerton, succeeded to his father's peerage titles (Baron Ellesmere, cr. 1603; Viscount Brackley, cr. 1616) in 1617, being further created Earl of Bridgewater.[7]
See also[edit]
- Egerton family
- Sir Ralph Egerton (great-grandfather)
References[edit]
- ^ "Alumni Oxonienses | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 1077, Duke of Sutherland
- ^ Shaw, William Arthur (31 May 1906). The Knights of England. Vol I: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Sherratt and Hughes. OL 7047747M – via The Open Library.
- ^ "EGERTON, Thomas II (1574-99), of Dodleston, Cheshire. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^ "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com.
- ^ Dod's Peerage
- ^ "Bridgewater, Earl of (E, 1617 - 1829)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
- 1574 births
- 1599 deaths
- Egerton family
- English gentry families
- English people of Norman descent
- People from Middlewich
- Members of Lincoln's Inn
- Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Cheshire
- English MPs 1597–1598
- Military personnel from Cheshire
- English military personnel killed in action
- 16th-century English soldiers
- Knights Bachelor