Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton

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Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1886.

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 the House of Lords.

Egerton was the only son of the 1st Baron Egerton and his wife Lady Charlotte Loftus eldest daughter of the Marquis of Ely. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry.

In 1858 Egerton was elected Member of Parliament 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 Baron Egerton. He was the second Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1887 to 1894. In 1897, he was created Earl Egerton. He died at the age of 77.

Egerton married Lady Mary Amherst, the only daughter of the 2nd Earl Amherst on 15 October 1857. 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.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Wilbraham Egerton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Egerton George Cornwall Legh	Member of Parliament for North Cheshire 1858–1868 With: George Cornwall Legh	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Mid Cheshire 1868–1883 With: George Cornwall Legh 1868–1873 Egerton Legh 1873–1876 Piers Egerton-Warburton 1876–1883	Succeeded by Piers Egerton-Warburton Hon. Alan Egerton
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Westminster	Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire 1900–1905	Succeeded by The Duke of Westminster
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Egerton	Baron Egerton 1883–1909	Succeeded by Alan Egerton

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Window of William and Wilbraham Egerton