EGERTON (formerly TATTON), William (1749-1806), of Tatton Park, Cheshire

In 1784 Egerton successfully contested Hindon on the Calthorpe interest. In William Adam’s list of May 1784 he was classed as ‘Administration’, and though his first recorded vote was against Pitt’s Irish proposals, 13 May 1785, he supported Pitt over the Regency, 1788-9. Two speeches by Egerton are reported before 1790, both on Lancashire affairs.Stockdale, v. 216, 229, reports these speeches as by ‘Mr. Egerton’, which is more likely to have been William than John William, who was an army officer, and seems to have had no connexion with Lancashire.

He died 21 Apr. 1806, said to be worth ‘£20,000 a year and upwards.’Gent. Mag. 1806, p. 391.