Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton

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Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton
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Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton ( May 14, 1749 - September 23, 1814 ) was a British peer and Tory politician.

He was the son of the House of Commons Sir Thomas Gray Egerton, 6th Baronet (around 1721-1756), from his marriage to Catherine Copley († 1791). He was still a minor when he inherited the title of 7th Baronet , of Egerton and Oulton in the County of Chester , created in 1617 in the Baronetage of England when his father died in 1756 .

He attended Westminster School we studied at Christ Church College of Oxford University . He lived in the Heaton Hall estate near Manchester .

On September 12, 1769 he married his cousin Eleanor Assheton († 1816), daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 3rd Baronet, and Eleanor Copley. With her he had a daughter, Eleanor Egerton (1770-1846), who in 1794 married Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster .

From 1772 to 1784 he was Knight of the Shire for Lancashire member of the House of Commons . During the American Revolutionary War in 1778 he set up an infantry regiment in Manchester for use in America at his own expense . He did not run for the general election in April 1784 and was elected Baron Gray de Wilton , of Wilton Castle in the County of Hereford in the Peerage of Great Britain on May 15, 1784 . He thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

On June 26, 1801, he was also awarded the title Earl of Wilton , of Wilton Castle in the County of Hereford, and Viscount Gray de Wilton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . Since he had no sons, these two titles were conferred with the special addition that, in the absence of male descendants, these were also given to the second-born son of his daughter, Hon.Thomas Grosvenor , and his male descendants and, in their absence, to his younger brothers and theirs male offspring is inheritable.

When he died in 1814 without leaving any sons, the title of baron expired. The Earldom and Visountcy fell to his nephew and the Baronetcy to his closest relative in the male line, his fourth cousin, John Egerton of Oulton (1766-1825).

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predecessor Office successor
Thomas Egerton Baronet, of Egerton and Oulton
1756-1814 		John Egerton
New title created Baron Gray de Wilton
1784-1814 		Title expired
New title created Earl of Wilton
1814-1814 		Thomas Egerton
personal data
SURNAME Egerton, Thomas, 1st Earl of Wilton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egerton, Thomas, 1st Baron Gray de Wilton; Egerton, Sir Thomas, 7th Baronet; Wilton, Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1749
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1814