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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 .
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1 de mai. de 2022 · He was listed as head of household in the 1891 census at Tatton Hall, Tatton Park Estate, Tatton, Cheshire, England. Wilbraham Egerton, 1st and last Earl Egerton of Tatton died on 16 March 1909 at age 77; without male issue.
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Sheriff, Cheshire 1808-9 Capt. R. Cheshire militia 1803; lt.-col. Macclesfield regt. 1809, lt.-col. commdt. 1812; capt. king’s Cheshire yeomanry 1819, lt.-col. 1831, lt.-col. commdt. 1835.
In 1812, Egerton, an anti-Catholic Tory whose estates made him one of the richest commoners in England, had come in unopposed for his native Cheshire, which his father had represented, 1802-6. He had proved to be a staunch advocate of protection for corn, salt and silk and a ready presenter of petitions, whose support for the Liverpool government w...
Tatton branch Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (1832–1909) This branch of the Egerton family descended in the female line from the Hon. Thomas Egerton, of Tatton Park in Cheshire, the youngest son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater.
Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, Wilbraham’s contribution was eventually recognised when he was created Earl Egerton and Viscount Salford in 1897. During the ownership of Wilbraham, the Egertons of Tatton Park reached the pinnacle of their social status.
It was John who built the first house on the site of the present Mansion around 1716. The Egertons continued in their ownership, despite serious financial difficulties in the early 18th century when Elizabeth Egerton (née Barbour), her husband having died at 45 and her oldest son dying prematurely at the age of only 28, was forced to contemplate the sale of the estate.
Wilbraham Egerton 1781-1856. It was during Wilbraham Egerton’s ownership of Tatton Park that the Neo-Classical house, begun by his father William, was completed. Wilbraham married his cousin Elizabeth Sykes (1777–1853) in 1806. Their union proved very fruitful for Tatton Park with six sons and two daughters born between the years 1806 and 1824.
