Ellesmere, FRANCIS EGERTON

Ellesmere, FRANCIS EGERTON, first EARL OF, was second son of the first Duke of Sutherland, and was born in London, 1st January 1800. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he sat for Bletchingley, Sutherland, and South Lancashire, and successively (1828-30) held the offices of Irish Secretary and Secretary for War. In 1833, on succeeding to his father's Bridgewater estates, he assumed the name of Egerton, in lieu of his patronymic Leveson-Gower, and in 1846 became Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley. He translated Faust, published poems, histories, and sketches of travel, and was a patron of the arts. He died 18th February 1857.