FRANCIS

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 4

EGERTO! Duke of, 5. 1736, d. 1803; the patron James Brindley, and an enthusiast | canal navigation. He built the Bride water Canal, connecting his coal mines; Worsley with Manchester, and ey t succe of this undertaking laid ti ve of the canal system | an eS [s. 81]