Alan de Tatton Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton (19 March 1845 – 9 September 1920), known as the Honourable Alan Egerton from 1859 to 1907, was a British
Conservative
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politician from the
Egerton family
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.
Egerton was a younger son of
William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton
William Tatton Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton (30 December 1806 – 21 February 1883) was a British peer and politician from the Egerton family.
Egerton was the son of Wilbraham Egerton and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes ...
, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus.
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton
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 ...
, was his elder brother. He was elected to the
House of Commons
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for
Cheshire Mid in 1883, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented
Knutsford
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from 1885 to 1906. In 1907 he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Egerton.
[''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 100th Edn, 1953.]
The Hon Alan de Tatton Egerton MP was commissioned as a
captain
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in the
Paddington Rifles
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Origin
The enthusiasm for the Volunteer movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many Rifle, Artillery and Engineer Volunteer units composed of part-time soldiers ...
(later 5th Volunteer Battalion,
Rifle Brigade
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) in 1877, and was later
major
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and honorary
lieutenant-colonel
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in the
Cheshire imperial Yeomanry.
[ He was the first president of the ]Institute of Refrigeration
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History
The Institute was formed in 1899 as the Cold Storage and Ice Association, the first national society in the world f ...
, formed in 1899 as the Cold Storage and Ice Association. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the County of Chester
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24 December 1901, and Vice-Lieutenant of the county 11 January 1902.
Lord Egerton married Anna Louisa, daughter of Simon Watson Taylor, in 1867. He died in September 1920, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Maurice Maurice may refer to:
People
* Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
* Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and ...
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