Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton

Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton (17 January 183216 March 1909) was the second Chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal from 1887 to 1894.

Egerton was the only son of the 1st Baron Egerton. On 15 October 1857, he married Lady Mary Amherst, the only daughter of the 2nd Earl Amherst and they had one child, Lady Gertrude Lucia Egerton, who later married the future 8th Earl of Albemarle.

In 1883, Egerton succeed to his father's title of Baron Egerton. 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. In 1897, he was created Earl Egerton.


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