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John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont PC, FRS (25 February 1711 – 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was the son and heir of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont by his wife Catherine Parker, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet of Arwarton. He was baptised at the Palace of Westminster, London. He ...
John Perceval Egmont, 1st earl of, 1683–1748, Irish peer, associate of James E. Oglethorpe in founding Georgia. Elected (1727) to the British House of Commons, he served on Oglethorpe's committee investigating penal conditions.
Wappen der Earls of Egmont John Perceval, 1. Earl of Egmont. Earl of Egmont war ein erblicher britischer Adelstitel in der Peerage of Ireland.. Die Namensgebung des Earlstitels bezieht sich auf einen Flurnamen bei Churchtown im County Cork, wo die Earls ein Anwesen besaßen.
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont (1711-1770), his eldest son, was an active politician, first lord of the admiralty (1763-1766), and political pamphleteer, and like his father an ardent genealogist. He was twice married, and had eight sons and eight daughters. One of his younger sons was Spencer Perceval, prime minister of England.
In July 1755 Newcastle obtained the King’s approval of a scheme for strengthening the Government in the Commons by making Egmont a vice-treasurer of Ireland, Sir George Lee chancellor of the Exchequer, and Pitt a Cabinet minister. 9 Nothing came of it, and Egmont told Sir John Cust, 21 Oct. 1755, 10 that he declined employment because by the ...
Egmont was the third but eldest surviving son of Charles Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden, eldest son of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, by his second wife Catherine, Baroness Arden. Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was his uncle. Naval career. Egmont left Harrow school and joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in August 1805.
PERCEVAL, JOHN, first Earl of Egmont (1683–1748), born at Burton in the county of Cork on 12 July 1683, was the second son of Sir John Perceval, bart., by his wife Catherine, fourth daughter of Sir Edward Dering, bart., of Surrenden-Dering, Kent. Sir Philip Perceval [q. v.] was his great-grandfather. While a child he lost both his parents.
