Wilbraham Egerton, Vanity Fair, 1886-11-27

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (17 January 1832 – 16 March 1909) was an English

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politician from the

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. He sat in the

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from 1858 to 1883 when he inherited his peerage and was elevated to the

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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

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and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
/ref> In 1858 Egerton was elected

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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, when he succeeded his father as 2nd

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. He was the second Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1887 to 1894. In 1897, he was created

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

Egerton was chairman of the

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, and an

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. He died on 16 March 1909 at the age of 77. A bust of Egerton by

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is on display at

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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.

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William Egerton and Wilbraham Egerton (Barons)

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