John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere
Noble person
1872 – 1944
Who was John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere?
Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere MVO KJStJ was a British peer and soldier, known as Viscount Brackley before 1914.
Lord Brackley was the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere and his wife, Katherine. He fought in the Boer War and served with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots, stationed at Edinburgh, during World War I, when he was mentioned in despatches.
On 28 October 1905, he married Lady Violet Lambton and they had seven children:
Lady Anne Katherine, married Geoffrey Babington
Lady Jane Mary, married Richard Scrope
Lady Mary, married Lt-Col. Conyers Scrope
Lady Susan Alice, married Maj. John Askew
Hon. John Sutherland
Lady Margaret, married Sir Jock Colville
Lady Alice
Lord Brackley inherited his father's titles in 1914. He sold his father's seat, St George's Hill House and its 964-acre estate, to master builder W. G. Tarrant, who went on to create Surrey's landmark St George's Hill estate. The new Earl then bought Hatchford End on the family's former estate at Hatchford Park for his unmarried sisters. He and Lady Violet moved to Burwood House, now Notre Dame School.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1872
- Parents
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Aug 24, 1944
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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