Philip de Malpas Gray-Egerton

Sir Philip de Malpas Gray-Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS (born November 13, 1806 - April 6, 1881 in London ) was an English paleontologist .

Life

He was the eldest son of Sir Philip Egerton, 9th Baronet. In 1825 his father changed the family name from "Egerton" to "Gray-Egerton" under a royal license. At the death of his father in 1829 he inherited his title of baronet , of Egerton in the County of Chester .

He was educated at the colleges of Eton and Christ Church and received his BA in 1828. While still in college, his interest in geology was awakened by the lectures of William Buckland and his acquaintance with William D. Conybeare .

During a trip through Switzerland with William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen , they were presented to Louis Agassiz in Neuchâtel and decided to conduct a joint study on fossil fish . Over the next fifty years, the two each built up their own collections of fossils. Philip Gray-Egerton's one was in Oulton Park in Tarporley , Cheshire . It was given to the British Museum after his death .

Gray-Egerton described numerous species, particularly fossil fish, and published in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London , in Geological Magazine and in the Decades of the Geological Survey . In recognition of his services, he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1873 . In 1831 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was an agent of the British Museum. He was also a member of Grillion's Club and compiled a history of the club's first fifty years in his book Grillion's Club: From Its Origin in 1812 To Its Fiftieth Anniversary , published in 1880.

In 1830 he was a member of the House of Commons as an MP for the Borough of Chester . From 1835 to 1868 he was an MP for the constituency of South Cheshire and from 1868 to 1881 for the constituency of West Cheshire .

Gray-Egerton died in London on April 6, 1881 . The red- forehead sibia ( Actinodura egertoni ) from the Timalia family was named in his honor.

Marriage and offspring

From his marriage to Anna Elizabeth Legh (1808–1882), which he entered into in 1832, he had four children:

• Sir Philip le Belward Gray-Egerton, 11th Baronet (1833–1891) ⚭ 1861 Hon. Henrietta Denison, daughter of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough ;
• Rowland Gray-Egerton (1838-1923), Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army;
• Cecily Louisa Gray-Egerton († 1920) ⚭ 1878 Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk ;
• Anna Mary Elizabeth Gray-Egerton († 1927) ⚭ 1855 Henry Reginald Corbet.

Fonts

• A systematic and stratigraphical catalog of the fossil fish in the cabinets of Lord Cole and Sir Philip Gray Egerton; together with an alphabetical and stratigraphical catalog of the same species with references to their published figures and descriptions. Richard and John E. Taylor, London 1837.

Literature and web links

• Egerton, Sir Philip de Malpas Gray . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 9 : Edwardes - Evangelical Association . London 1910, p. 13 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
• Sir Philip de Malpas Gray-Egerton, 10th Bt. On thepeerage.com
• Sir Philip Egerton at Hansard (English)

predecessor	title	successor
Philip Gray-Egerton	Baronet, of Egerton 1829-1881	Philip Gray-Egerton