ELLESMERE

Francis Egerton , 1 Earl of ( younger son of 1 Duke of Sutherland 1758–1833 ). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Blet chin gley, Surrey 1822–26, for Sutherlandshire 1826–30, for South Lancashire 1834–46; a lord of the Treasury 1827; under sec. of state for Colonies, Jany. to May 1828; chief sec. to Marquis of Anglesey, lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–30; P.C. 28 June 1828; P.C. Ireland 9 Aug. 1828; sec. at war 30 July to 22 Nov. 1830; rector of Univ. of Aberdeen, Oct. 1838; created Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere, Salop, and Viscount Brackley of Brackley, North amp tons hire 1 July 1846; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Lancashire 9 April 1856; author of Translations from the German and original poems 1824; Mediterranean sketches 1843; The pilgrimage and other poems 1856. d. Bridge water house, St. James’s, London 18 Feb. 1857. Journal of British Archæol. A oc. xiv , 184–6 (1858); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv , pp. xlv-xlvii (1858); Fraser’s Mag. July 1835 p. 43, portrait ; I.L.N. viii , 60 (1846), portrait , xxxvii , 563, 568 (1860), portrait .