Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H

by Frederic Boase

EGERTON, William Tatton Egerton, 1 Baron (eld. child of Wilbraham Egerton 1781–1856). b. 30 Dec. 1806; M.P. for Lymington 1830, for Cheshire 1832–58; created baron Egerton of Tatton county palatine of Cheshire 15 May 1859; lord lieut. of Cheshire 29 Jany. 1868 to death. d. Tatton hall, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Rostherne church 27 Feb. Graphic xxvii, 296 (1883), portrait.

EGERTON, Caledon Richard. b. 28 July 1814; ensign 89 foot 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 12 Dec. 1856; lieut. col. of 18 depot battalion 1856–63, of 8 depot battalion 1863–65; assistant adjutant general in Scotland 1865–66; deputy adjutant general 1 April 1866 to 1 Nov. 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868; military sec. to commander in chief 1 Nov. 1871 to 20 Feb. 1874; col. 89 foot 20 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 7 Durham villas, Kensington, London 27 May 1874.

EGERTON, Sir Charles Bulkeley (4 son of Philip Egerton of Oulton park, Cheshire 1732–86). b. Oulton park 5 June 1774; ensign 29 foot 16 Nov. 1791; lieut. col. 44 foot 5 Jany. 1809 to 22 Aug. 1811 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; G.C.M.G. 10 May 1837. d. 1 Upper Portland place, London 8 July 1857.

EGERTON, Charles Chandler (son of Rev. Charles Egerton, V. of Thorncombe, Dorset). b. Thorncombe vicarage, April 1798; ed. at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1819, assistant surgeon Bengal 1823; oculist at the Eye hospital and afterwards at Medical college hospital, Calcutta where he was also first surgeon to 1847 when he retired. d. Kendal lodge, Epping, May 1885.

EGERTON, Edward Christopher (brother of 1 Baron Egerton 1806–83). b. Tatton park, Cheshire 27 July 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, B.C.L. 1841; fell. of All Soul’s coll. 1837–46; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; M.P. for Macclesfield 1852 to 1868; M.P. for East Cheshire 1868 to death; under sec. for foreign affairs, July 1866 to Dec. 1868. d. Baveno, Italy 27 Aug. 1869. I.L.N. xxi, 402 (1852), portrait.

EGERTON, Henry. b. 7 July 1836; acting manager T.R. Dublin; killed in the fire of the T.R. Dublin 9 Feb. 1880, body found 6 March. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 9 March. Graphic xxi, 205 (1880), portrait.

EGERTON, Rev. John Coker (eld. son of John Egerton of Bunbury, Cheshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 Feb. 1848 aged 18; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1854; C. of Nunton, Wilts. 1854–57; C. of Burwash, Sussex 1857–62 and 1865–67; C. of St. Andrew Undershaft, City of London 1862–65; R. and V. of Burwash 1867 to death; a writer in Leisure Hour and the Sussex Advertiser; author of Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways. d. 20 March 1888. The Academy 31 March 1888 p. 223.

EGERTON, John Hume (elder son of John Cust 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853). b. Cavendish sq. London 15 Oct. 1812; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; M.P. for Bedfordshire 13 Jany. 1835 to death; captain North Lincolnshire militia 29 May 1833, colonel to death; took part in the Eglinton tournament, fought in earnest with the Marquis of Waterford the last day 30 Aug. 1839; took name of Egerton only by r.l. 15 March 1849. d. Ashridge park 3 Jany. 1851.

EGERTON, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-, 10 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9 baronet). b. Malpas, Cheshire 13 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; collected fossil fishes in Germany, Switzerland and Italy; M.P. for Chester 1830–32, for South Cheshire 1835–68, for West Cheshire 1868 to death; contested South Cheshire 1832; F.G.S. 1829, Wollaston medallist 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1831; author of Alphabetical catalogue of type specimens of fossil fishes 1871, and of over 80 papers in the Transactions, Proceedings and Journal of Geol. Soc., and other scientific journals. d. 28^B Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 April 1881. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii, pp. xxii-iv (1882); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii, 46–8 (1882).

EGERTON, Richard. b. 7 April 1783; ensign 89 foot 1 Dec. 1798; captain 34 foot 14 April 1808 to 16 Dec. 1819 when placed on h.p.; first aide-de-camp and private sec. to Lord Hill the commander in chief 1828–42; col. 46 foot 24 Jany. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Eaton Banks, Cheshire 18 Nov. 1854.