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\"High Sheriff of Cheshire\" Wilbraham Egerton Signed Free Frank:
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Up for sale a RARE! "High Sheriff of Cheshire" Wilbraham Egerton Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1824.

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Wilbraham Egerton (1 September 1781

– 25 April 1856) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament from

the Egerton family. He was the

eldest surviving son of William Tatton, later Egerton and educated at Eton College (1796) and probably Brasenose College, Oxford (1800).

In 1806 he succeeded his father, inheriting the large Tatton Hall estate in north Cheshire. He completed the

large country house built by his father and furnished it with furniture

from Gillows of Lancaster and

London. He was a Captain in the Royal Cheshire militia in 1803,

lieutenant-colonel in the Macclesfield regiment in 1809 and captain (1831) and

then lieutenant-colonel in the King's Cheshire yeomanry (1831). He was

appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire for

1808–09 and elected MP for Cheshire in

1812, sitting until 1831. He married his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter

of Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd

Baronet of Sledmere House, Yorkshire, with whom he had 7 sons and 3

daughters. Their eldest son and heir, William Tatton Egerton,

became the 1st Baron Egerton. A younger son, Edward Egerton, was an MP He died in 1856.

1885 Deed Maidencreek Township Berks County,PA,High Sheriff to J Leavy for $5.

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"High Sheriff of Cheshire" Wilbraham Egerton Signed Free Frank

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Antique 19thC Nickel Silver Dog Collar to High Sheriff Norfolk c1873 Morley Hall

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