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| '''Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FRS|FSA}} (11 November 1756 – 11 February 1829), known as '''Francis Henry Egerton''' until 1823, was a noted ] ] from the ] and supporter of ].{{sfn|Mosley|2003|pp=1232-12323}} | |||
| Egerton was a ] clergyman who held the rectories of ] (1781) and ] (1797) in ], but the duties were performed by a proxy. He succeeded his brother ] in the earldom in 1823, and spent the latter part of his life in ]. He was a fair scholar, and a zealous naturalist and antiquarian. When he died in February 1829 ] became extinct.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} | |||
| ==Early life== | |||
| Born in London in 1756, Egerton was the younger son of ], ] and Anne Sophia Grey.<ref name="Cokayne 2000, p. 316">{{harvnb|Lundy|2011|p=15192 § 151911}} cites {{harvnb|Cokayne|2000|p=316}}</ref>{{efn|Egerton's maternal grandparents were ] and his second wife Sophia Bentinck. Sophia was a daughter of ] and Anne Villiers. Anne was a daughter of Sir Edward Villiers and his first wife Frances Howard. She was also a sister of ].{{citation needed|date=April 2017|reason=Everything from the start of the paragraph}}}} He was educated at ] and ] where he gained his Bachelor of Arts in 1776, and became a fellow of ] in 1780, and ] in 1781.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} He inherited his title and a large fortune in 1823 from his brother, ].<ref name="Cokayne 2000, p. 316"/> | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| ], where many ] members are buried]] | |||
| Egerton was eccentric. According to the Parisian police, Egerton kept dogs and cats in his house which he dressed as ladies and gentlemen and would take them with him in his carriage.<ref name="Cokayne 2000, p. 316"/> he kept ]s and ]s with clipped wings in his garden, allowing him to shoot them despite failing eyesight.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} He never married, and upon his death, his title became extinct.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} He was buried at ], ].{{sfn|''Monuments''|2015}} | |||
| In the early 17th century, ], had purchased ], one of the largest ] in England, from ], who had inherited it from her father who had appropriated it after the ] in 1539. Ashridge House served the Egerton family as a residence until the 19th century. The Egertons later had a family chapel (the Bridgewater Chapel) with burial vault in Little Gaddesden Church,{{sfn|''Bridgewater Chapel''|2015}} where many monuments commemorate the ] and their families.{{sfn|''Monuments''|2015}} | |||
| ==Arts and science== | |||
| He was invested as a ] (F.R.S.) on 8 November 1781 and as a Fellow of the ] (]) on 31 March 1791.<ref name="Cokayne 2000, p. 316"/> | |||
| In 1812 he wrote "Description du Plan Incliné Souterrain" about the underground canals of the ], ]s in ], ], part of the Bridgewater estate.{{sfn|Egerton|1812}} | |||
| A Freemason who had been Initiated in France, from 10th August 1786 until 1800 Egerton was Provincial Grand Master for Shropshire and North Wales, adding Staffordshire, Flint, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire to his responsibilities in 1791. For all that this was an extensive area, the duties associated with the position at that time were light, and in many cases (up to 1795) left in the hands of his Deputy/Provincial Grand Secretary Charles Shirreff. The Secretary of Whitchurch Lodge no. 1, John Collier, was one of the curates who deputised for Egerton at the church in the town. | |||
| ==Death and bequests== | |||
| At his death his titles became extinct.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} | |||
| He bequeathed to the ] the valuable ],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} consisting of 67{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} ]s dealing with the literature of France and Italy, and ]12,000{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}} to establish the Egerton Fund from which the Museum could purchase additional manuscripts. More than 3800 manuscripts have been purchased using the Egerton fund.{{citation needed|date=April 2017|reason=all the cacts since the last citaition}} | |||
| He also left £8,000 at the disposal of the president of the ], to be paid to the author or authors who might be selected to write and publish 1000 copies of a treatise "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation". The resulting eight ] first appeared between 1833 and 1836, and afterwards in ] Scientific Library.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=558}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Topham |first1=Jonathan |title=Reading the Book of Nature How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age |date=2022 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9-780-226-81576-3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Reading_the_Book_of_Nature/CObtzgEACAAJ?hl=en}}</ref> | |||
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| *{{citation |last=Egerton |first=Francis Henry |year=1812 |title=Description du plan incliné souterrain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dysPAAAAQAAJ |publisher=au bureau des Annales des Arts et Manufactures, rue J.J. Rousseau, n. 1, Imprimerie de Chaignieau Aîné}} | |||
| * {{citation |title=Bridgewater Chapel |date=10 February 2015 |publisher=Little Gaddesden Church |url=http://www.littlegaddesdenchurch.org.uk/Bridgewater_Chapel.html |ref={{sfnref|Bridgewater Chapel|2015}} |accessdate=11 April 2017}} | |||
| * {{citation |title=Monuments |date=10 February 2015 |url=http://www.littlegaddesdenchurch.org.uk/Monuments_1.html |ref={{sfnref|Monuments|2015}} |publisher=Little Gaddesden Church |accessdate=11 April 2017}} | |||
| * {{citation |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |date=1 May 2011 |title=Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgwater |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p15192.htm#i151915 |page=15192 § 151915 |accessdate=11 April 2017}} cite: | |||
| **{{citation |editor-last=Cokayne |editor-first=G.E. |display-editors=etal |year=2000 |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant |edition=reprint in 6 volumes |location= Gloucester, U.K. |publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |volume=II |page=316}} | |||
| *{{citation |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |year=2003|title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage |edition=106th in 2 volumes |volume=1 |location=Crans, Switzerland |publisher=Burke's Peerage |pages=1232–1233}} | |||
| *{{citation |last=Temperton |first=Harold |year=1981 |title=A History of Craft Freemasonry in Shropshire }} | |||
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| * {{cite EB1911 |mode=cs2 |wstitle=Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of |volume=4 |page=558 }} | |||
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| * {{cite EB9 |mode=cs2 |ref=none |wstitle=The Rev. Francis Henry, eighth earl of Bridgewater |volume=4 |page=342 }} | |||
| * {{citation |ref=none |first=Catherine |last=Caufield |title=The Emperor of the United States and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |year=1981 |isbn=0-7100-0957-7 |pages=77–79 }} | |||
| * Topham, Jonathan (2022). ''Reading the Book of Nature How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age''. University of Chicago Press. ] ]. | |||
| * {{citation|ref=none |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science_texts/bridgewater/b1.htm |title=The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise}} | |||
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