Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton DL (14 September 1804 – 6 December 1891) was an English landowner and poet from the Egerton family in Cheshire.

He is best remembered for rebuilding Arley Hall and its chapel dedicated to St Mary, and for helping to create the picturesque appearance of the village of Great Budworth.

He and his wife designed extensive new formal gardens to the southeast of the hall, which included one of the earliest herbaceous borders in Britain.

[2] His maternal grandmother (also called Emma) was the youngest sister of Sir Peter Warburton, 5th baronet of Arley, who had no children.

[3] Sir Peter died in 1813 and in his will he left the estates of Warburton and Arley to Rowland junior, who was at that time still a minor.

After his time in Oxford, he went on a Grand Tour, and returned to the life of a squire at Arley Hall,[6] having gained control of the estates on achieving his age of majority in 1825.

[6] In the 1850s he paid for the restoration of his local parish church of St Mary and All Saints at Great Budworth, where he encouraged a more Anglo-Catholic style of worship.

[13] In the village of Appleton Thorn, 3.3 miles (5 km) to the north of Arley Hall, he paid for St Cross church, which was built in 1886–87 to a design by Edmund Kirby of Liverpool.

[16] In 1875, the George and Dragon, a simple three-bay Georgian inn in the village, was remodelled by adding ribbed chimneys, moulded brick mullions, an elliptical-headed doorway and a steep pyramid-shaped turret.

[8] Egerton-Warburton was a keen fox hunter and rode with the Tarporley Hunt Club, of which he became a member in 1825 and president in 1838.

His friend, the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, described him as being "equally at home in the hunting field and the parish church".

[28] He also wrote a couplet as an epitaph for the headstone of Copenhagen, the war horse ridden at the Battle of Waterloo by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

The couplet, "God's humbler instrument, though meaner clay, should share the glory of that glorious day,"[29] was written at the request of the 2nd Duke, when he erected a tombstone for his father's famous horse on his grave at Strathfield Saye.

[30] He took great interest in the design of the new house and chapel, and his ideas reflected respectively his artistic and his religious values.

He also wanted the new house to reflect his ancient lineage: "to suggest something of the piety of the Middle Ages as well as the grandeur of Elizabethan England".

He commissioned a young local architect, George Latham from Nantwich, and worked closely with him in the design.

[32][34] Egerton-Warburton then took a break, partly to raise the money needed for the completion of the house, and also to work on the designs of the remaining rooms.

He commissioned the nationally famous architect Anthony Salvin to design a Gothic Revival chapel, which was completed and consecrated in 1845.

They implemented their designs apparently without any professional help, and the present gardens are largely the result of their planning.

[40] Peter, born in 1813, worked with the East India Company before moving to Australia, where he achieved some notoriety as an explorer.