Henry Egerton

[2] He was ordained deacon in 1712 in Christ Church, Oxford and afterwards priested and presented to two family benefices in the Yorkshire villages of Dunnington and Settrington.

He exchanged his Yorkshire parishes for two other family livings in north Shropshire, Whitchurch and Myddle.

He also became deputy to the clerk of the closet in 1719, giving it up in 1723 when, after having been recommended for the vacant post of Bishop of Hereford by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London and Robert Walpole's chief ecclesiastical adviser, he was consecrated at Lambeth Palace on 2 February 1724.

[2] Egerton married on 18 December 1720 Lady Elizabeth Adriana, daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.

Their son the Right Reverend John Egerton became Bishop of Durham and was the father of the seventh and eighth Earls of Bridgewater.