Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton
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Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton ( August 4, 1874 , † January 30, 1958 ) was a British nobleman and officer, as well as a colonist in Kenya .
He was the third and youngest son of the politician Alan Egerton, 3rd Baron Egerton , from his marriage to Anna Louisa Watson-Taylor. His two older brothers William Egerton (1868–1870) and Cecil Egerton (1871–1888) died young.
He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . After the First World War , he emigrated to the British crown colony of Kenya, where he was assigned lands in the fertile highlands not far from the city of Nakuru as part of the Soldier Settlement Scheme .
When his father died in 1920, he inherited his title of nobility as Baron Egerton and his estate at Tatton Park in Cheshire .
In Kenya he ran agriculture and bought more land there from Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere , who had lived in the region for some time. In 1938 he began building an estate called Lord Egerton Castle on his land there, and in 1939 he established an agricultural school called Egerton Farm School there . At the outbreak of World War II , he returned to England and served as major in the Cheshire Yeomanry .
After the war he returned to Kenya and completed Lord Egerton Castle in 1954. The Egerton Farm School was further developed and renamed the Egerton Agricultural College in 1955 .
He remained unmarried and when he died in 1958 at the age of 83, his title became extinct. His English estate Tatton Park was then transferred to the National Trust ; Lord Egerton Castle and the Egerton Agricultural College in Kenya are now part of the public Egerton University .
Literature and web links
- Leslie Filbert Pine: The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971. Heraldry Today, London 1972, pp. 112-113.
- Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton on thepeerage.com
- Douglas Kiereini: Castle that was built for a hard-to-please lover. Business Daily Africa, September 24, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Egerton |
Baron Egerton 1920-1958 |
Title expired |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Egerton, Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1874 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1958 |