John Egerton, 2nd Duke of Bridgewater

John Egerton, 2nd Duke of Bridgwater (29 April 1727 – 26 February 1748),[2] known as Lord John Egerton until 1731 and as Marquess of Brackley from 1731 to 1745, was a British peer from the Egerton family. He was also known as the 5th Earl of Bridgewater from 1745 to 1748.

Arms of Egerton: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable[1]

Egerton was the fourth son of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater and his second wife Lady Rachael Russell, daughter of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford.[3] His older brothers having predeceased him, he succeeded his father as duke in 1745.[4]

Only three years later Egerton died intestate, aged only 20, from a fever and was buried in Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire on 4 March 1748.[3] He was unmarried and was succeeded in his titles by his younger and only surviving brother Lord Francis Egerton.[2]

References
  1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 1077, Duke of Sutherland
  2. Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 227.
  3. Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. II. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. p. 314.
  4. Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 102.


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