Wilbraham Egerton (MP for Cheshire)

In 1806, he succeeded his father, inheriting the large Tatton Hall estate in north Cheshire.

He completed the large country house built by his father and furnished it with furniture from Gillows of Lancaster and London.

[1] He was a Captain in the Royal Cheshire militia in 1803, lieutenant-colonel in the Macclesfield regiment in 1809 and captain (1831) and then lieutenant-colonel in the King's Cheshire yeomanry (1831).

He married his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet of Sledmere House, Yorkshire, with whom he had 7 sons and 3 daughters.

A younger son, Edward Egerton, was an MP for Macclesfield and Cheshire East.