Charles George Perceval, 7th Earl of Egmont (15 June 1845 – 5 September 1897) was a British peer and Conservative Party politician of the Victorian era. On 19 September 1868, he was commissioned a cornet in the 2nd Regiment of the

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. He was elected at the general election in February 1874 as the

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(MP) for the parliamentary borough of

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in Surrey. However, he succeeded to the peerage on 2 August that year, taking both the Irish title of

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and the title Baron Arden in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The latter title gave him a seat in

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, thereby vacating his seat in the

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. He was promoted from lieutenant to captain in the Yeomanry on 25 November 1874. On 8 April 1878, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Surrey. He sold the family estates around

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in 1889.

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* 1845 births 1897 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 Egmont, E7 Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry officers Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey Earls of Egmont 3 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub