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John Egerton | |
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| 2nd Earl of Bridgewater | |
| Reign | 1649–1686 |
| Predecessor | John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater |
| Successor | John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater |
| Born | 30 May 1623 |
| Died | 26 October 1686 |
| Buried | Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire |
| Noble family | Egerton |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Elizabeth Cavendish |
| Issue | John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater Sir William Egerton KB Thomas Egerton Charles Egerton MP Elizabeth Egerton |
| Father | John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater |
| Mother | Lady Frances Stanley |
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, PC (30 May 1623 – 26 October 1686), was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.
Life
The surviving son of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and his wife Lady Frances Stanley, his maternal grandparents were Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and Lady Alice Spencer. According to the Will of King Henry VIII, his mother, at one time, was second-in-line to inherit England's throne. However, Frances, Countess of Bridgewater's elder sister, Lady Anne Stanley, was passed over in favour of King James VI of Scotland.
Styled Viscount Brackley before succeeding to the earldom in 1649, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660–1686), Cheshire (1670–1676), Lancashire (1670–1676), and Hertfordshire (1681–1686), as well as being sworn of the Privy Council in 1679.
Lord Bridgewater was buried at Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
Family
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In 1641, as Lord Brackley, he married Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (1626–1663), a daughter of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his first wife Elizabeth Basset. Lord and Lady Bridgewater's children included:
- John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater (9 November 1646–19 March 1701)
- Sir William Egerton KB (15 August 1649–24 December 1691),[2] who married Honora Leigh
- Thomas Egerton (1651–1685), of Tatton Park, ancestor of the Barons and Earls Egerton
- two other sons
- Charles Egerton MP
- Elizabeth Egerton (24 August 1653 – 1709), who married Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester
- two other daughters.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1077, Duke of Sutherland
- ^ www.historyofparliamentonline.org
- ^ Cracroft's Peerage Bridgewater, Earl of (E, 1617 – 1829). Accessed 15 June 2014.
External links
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There is no entry about John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater (1623 - 1686) in the L&M Companion.
However, I found this enlightening episode about him in Oxford DNB Isaac Penington's biography:
About May 1665, Quaker landowner and writer Isaac Penington was arrested again, this time at the behest of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, who was offended because Penington had refused to address him as 'My lord'.
During Penington’s 1665 imprisonments his pen remained active, partly with letters to his wife, Mary Proude Springett Penington, magistrates, relatives, Quaker meetings, and even to the Earl of Bridgewater explaining why he could not use worldly titles.
Highlights from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10…
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