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

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politician from the

Egerton family The Egerton family (pronunciation: "''edge-er-ton''") is a British aristocratic family. Over time, several members of the Egerton family were made Dukes, Earls, knights, baronets and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Egerton family include t ...

. 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

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for Cheshire Mid in 1883, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented

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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

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in the

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(later 5th Volunteer Battalion,

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) in 1877, and was later

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and honorary

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in the Cheshire imperial Yeomanry. He was the first president of the

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, formed in 1899 as the Cold Storage and Ice Association. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the

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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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Egerton, Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron 1845 births 1920 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Younger sons of barons UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs who inherited peerages Tatton family