Charles Egerton (MP for Brackley)

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

Charles Egerton (12 March 1654 – 11 December 1717) was an English Member of Parliament. [2]

He was a younger son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgwater and educated in the law at the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn.

Egerton represented Brackley, Northamptonshire from 1695 to 1711. He was unseated on petition in favour of John Burgh, 27 Jan 1711.

From 1697 to 1709 Egerton was involved in backing a scheme to pardon the pirates of Madagascar and have them return to England with their considerable plundered wealth. Propagated by former pirate John Breholt, the scheme lost traction after Breholt's piratical past came to light.[3]

He died on 11 December 1717, aged 63. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Henry Murray, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I and widow of Randolph Egerton of Betley, Staffordshire. They had one son.

References

  1. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 1077, Duke of Sutherland
  2. ↑ "EGERTON, Hon. Charles (1654-1717)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  3. ↑ McGrath (ed.), Charles Ivar; Fauske (ed.), Christopher J.; Bialuschewski, Arne (2008). Greed, Fraud, and Popular Culture: John Breholt's Madagascar Schemes of the Early Eighteenth Century (in Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles). Newark NJ: Associated University Presses. pp. 104–113. ISBN 9780874130270. Retrieved 21 February 2018.


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