[1] Despite his double family tie to the Roman Catholic conspirator Sir William Stanley (each married the other's sister), his own family remained in high favour (his cousin Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, was one of the leading figures at Court), and neither his Protestant faith nor his loyalty to the Crown was ever questioned.
[1] Egerton died at his house in Bassinghall Street in the City of London at the age of about 62, probably from kidney disease.
[1] He married secondly after February 1598, Anne Trappes (died 1619), widow of Francis Trappes, a London goldsmith, and of Sir William Blount, and daughter of Robert Barnard (or Byrnand) of Knaresborough, who brought him a comfortable fortune, and a London townhouse on Bassinghall Street.
A younger son John was killed in a duel with Edward Morgan of Flintshire, with whom the Egerton family had a long-standing quarrel, in 1610.
Sir John's stepdaughter Ursula Trappes married the prominent judge and politician Lewis Prowde, MP for Shrewsbury in 1614, at whose request Egerton was made an honorary member of Lincoln's Inn in 1602.