ceeding in his own yacht to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land. The result of his observations appeared in 'Mediterranean Sketches,' 1843. A portion of his wealth was put to a generous use in his support of men of genius and in his building a gallery at his town residence in Cleveland Row, to which the public were very freely admitted, for the magnificent collection of paintings which he had inherited. On 30 June 1846 he was created Viscount Brackley of Brackley and Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere, and on 7 Feb. 1855 was made a knight of the Garter. He was president of the British Association at the Manchester meeting in 1842, served as president of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1849, and was president of the Royal Geographical Society 1854-5. He died at Bridgewater House, London, on 18 Feb. 1857, and was buried at Worsley, near Manchester, on 26 Feb., where a monument, designed by G. G. Scott, R.A., was erected in 1860. He married, on 18 June 1822, Harriet Catherine, only daughter of Charles Greville, by Charlotte, eldest daughter of William, third duke of Portland. She was born on 1 Jan. 1800 and died on 17 April 1866. She was the author or translator of:
- 'Questions on the Epistles,' parts vii. and viii., 1832.
- 'Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land in May and June 1840, with lithographic views from original drawings by Lord F. Egerton,' 1841.
- 'The Believer's Guide to the Holy Communion, by J. H. Grand-Pierre; a translation,' 1849.
Ellesmere was the author, translator, or editor of the following works:
- 'Faust, a drama, by Goethe, and Schiller's song of the Bell,' 1823.
- , 'Translations from the German and original Poems,' 1824.
- 'Boyle Farm,' 1827.
- 'Wallenstein's Camp and original Poems,' 1830.
- 'Dramatic Scones, founded on Victor Hugo's tragedy of Hernani.' Printed in the Club Book, 1831.
- 'Catherine of Cleves and Hernani, tragedies translated from the French,' 1832, another edit. 1854.
- 'The Puria, a tragedy; by M. Beer,' 1830.
- 'Alfred, a drama,' 1840
- 'Blue Beard, a tragedy,' 1841.
- 'Mediterranean Sketches,' 1843.
- 'The Campaign of 1812 in Russia, by Charles Clausewitz,' 1843.
- 'The Siege of Vienna by the Turks, from the German of K. A. Schimmer,' 1847; new edit. 1861.
- 'National Defences, letters of Lord Ellesmere,' 1848.
- 'A Guide to Northern Archæology,' 1848.
- 'History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, by Michael Amari,' 1850.
- 'Military Events in Italy,' 1848-9; translated from the German, 1851.
- 'Solwan, or the Waters of Comfort, by Ibn Zafer,' 1852.
- 'On the Life and Character of the Duke of Wellington,' 1852; second edition, 1852.
- 'History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China, from the French of Père J. d'Orléans,' 1854.
- 'Addresses to the Royal Geographical Society of London,' 2 vols. 1854, 1855.
- 'The War in the Crimea, a discourse,' 1855.
- 'The Pilgrimage and other Poems,' 1856. 23. 'Essays on History, Biography, Geography, Engineering,' &c., contributed to the 'Quarterly Review,' 1858.
Some of these works were privately printed, and others after publication were withdrawn from circulation. His version of Alexandre Dumas' tragedy, 'Henri III et sa Cour,' entitled 'Catherine of Cleves,' was performed with much success at Covent Garden, Charles Kemble and his daughter Fanny appearing in the piece.
[Gent. Mag. March 1857, p. 358; Illustrated London News, 24 Jan. 1846, p. 60, with portrait, 21 Feb. 1857, p. 160, and 16 Dec. 1860. pp. 563, 568; Times, 19 Feb. 1857, p. 9, and 27 Feb., p. 10; Frasor's Mag. July 1835, p. 43, with portrait; Bates's Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883), pp. 323-5, with portrait; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 679, with portrait; J. Evans's Lancashire Authors (1850), pp. 85-8; Quarterly Journal Geological Soc. of London, xiv. pp. xlv-xlvii (1858); Proceedings Royal Geographical Society of London, 25 May 1857, pp. 377-83; St. Vincent Beechy's Sermons on Death of Earl of Ellesmere (1857).]
EGERTON, FRANCIS HENRY, eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756–1829), founder of the 'Bridgewater Treatises,' younger son of John Egerton, bishop of Durham [q. v.], by Lady Anne Sophia Grey, daughter of Henry, duke of Kent, was born in London on 11 Nov. 1756, and educated at Eton and at Christ Church and All Souls' College, Oxford. He matriculated at Christ Church on 27 March 1773, proceeded B.A. on 23 Oct. 1776, and M.A. on 24 May 1780. In 1780, also, he was elected fellow of All Souls, and appointed (30 Nov.) prebendary of Durham. In the following year he was presented by the Duke of Bridgewater to the rectory of Middle, and in 1797 to that of Whitchurch, both in Shropshire. He retained the preferments till his death, but for many years their duties were performed by proxy. He was elected F.R.S. in 1781 and F.S.A. in 1791, and was a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. In January 1808 he and his sister Amelia were raised to the rank of earl's children, and on 21 Oct. 1823 he succeeded his brother John William as Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, and Baron Ellesmere. He was a good scholar, a lover of litera-
