John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater

Who was John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater?

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater PC was an English nobleman.

He was a son of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Lady Frances Stanley. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby and his wife Alice Spencer.

According to the Will of King Henry VIII, his mother, at one time, was second-in-line to inherit England's throne. However, Lady Frances Stanley's older sister, Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven, was passed over for King James VI of Scotland.

He served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Hertfordshire, in addition to being invested as a Privy Councillor in 1679. He was buried in Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.

In 1641 he married to Elizabeth Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his first wife Elizabeth Basset. Their children included:

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater

William Egerton, who married Honora Leigh

Thomas Egerton of Tatton Park, ancestor of the Barons and Earls Egerton

Two other sons

Charles Egerton

Elizabeth Egerton, who married Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester