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Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater (11 August 1681 – 11 January 1744), styled as Viscount Brackley from 1687 to 1701 and as the Earl of Bridgewater from 1701 to 1720, was an English peer, courtier and landowner.
The Bridgwater estates and title thus devolved to his younger son, only nine years old at the time, Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of Bridgwater, who achieved fame and great fortune as the aristocratic entrepreneur behind the canal systems linking the burgeoning industrial and coastal towns of his Lancashire and Cheshire estates.
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (21 May 1736 – 8 March 1803), known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman from the Egerton family. He was the youngest son of the 1st Duke.
Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater (11 August 1681 – 11 January 1744), styled as Viscount Brackley from 1687 to 1701 and as the Earl of Bridgewater from 1701 to 1720, was an English peer, courtier and landowner.
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Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater (11 August 1681 – 11 January 1744), known as Viscount Brackley from 1687 to 1701 and as the 4th Earl of Bridgewater from 1701 to 1720, was a British peer, courtier and pioneering landowner.
Scroop (sometimes Scrope or Scroope) Egerton was born on 11 August 1681, the fourth but eldest surviving son of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgwater, [1] and the third son of his second wife, Jane Powlett. He was baptised on 14 August 1681 at St Giles's, Cripplegate.
