EGERTON, William, first Baron Egerton, of Tatton Park.

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[Title from binding:] Portraits of Celebrated Persons. Highly appealing exemplar of a mid-nineteenth century portrait album, assembled with discernment and a great deal of care by William Egerton, first Baron Egerton of Tatton (1806-1883), carrying in each volume his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper verso and fine armorial bookplate to volume I (the Egerton arms impaled with those of Loftus, surmounted by a baron's coronet, Egerton having been elevated to the peerage in 1859). In 1830 he married Lady Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of John Loftus, second Marquess of Ely. Egerton sat as MP for Lymington (1830-31) and Cheshire North (1832 - August 1858), was Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire from 1868 until his death, and held senior ranks in the King's Cheshire Yeomanry for nearly three decades. "Egerton's family were extremely wealthy Cheshire landowners, whose association with the Tatton estate went back to 1598... At the 1832 general election he successfully stood as 'a thorough going Tory' for Cheshire North, where he sat for the next 26 years. Raised to the peerage by the second Derby ministry, he continued to act with the Conservatives in the Lords. 'An enormously rich man', whose fortune might have been even larger as a reversionary heir to the Bridgwater millions of his distant cousin the seventh earl of Bridgwater, he and his wife apparently 'lived carefully and without any ostentation' at their London home and at Tatton Hall, where he died from a 'severe atta

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