Biography of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater 1623-1686
Paternal Family Tree: Egerton
Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath 1509-1561
On 27 Jun 1602 [his father] John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 23) and [his mother] Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 19) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and [his grandmother] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 53). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 15 Mar 1617 [his grandfather] Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 77) died. His son [his father] John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 38) succeeded 2nd Viscount Brackley, 2nd Baron Ellesmere.
On 27 May 1617 [his father] John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 38) was created 1st Earl Bridgewater. [his mother] Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 34) by marriage Countess Bridgewater.
On 30 May 1623 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater was born to John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 44) and Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 40).
In 1636 [his mother] Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 53) died.
In 1641 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 17) and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 14) were married. She the daughter of William Cavendish 1st Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 48) and Elizabeth Bassett Countess Newcastle upon Tyne (age 49). He the son of John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 62) and Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward IV of England.
On 24 Oct 1642 Oliver St John 5th Baron St John (age 39) died from wounds. On 24 Oct 1642 His nephew Oliver St John 2nd Earl Bolingbroke (age 9) succeeded 6th Baron St John of Bletso. [his sister-in-law] Frances Cavendish Countess Bolingbroke by marriage Baroness St John of Bletso.
Around Jul 1646 Oliver St John 1st Earl Bolingbroke (age 66) died. His grandson Oliver St John 2nd Earl Bolingbroke (age 13) succeeded 2nd Earl Bolingbroke. [his sister-in-law] Frances Cavendish Countess Bolingbroke by marriage Countess Bolingbroke.
On 09 Nov 1646 [his son] John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater was born to John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 23) and [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 19).
On 15 Aug 1649 [his son] William Egerton was born to John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 26) and [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 22).
On 04 Dec 1649 [his father] John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 70) died. His son John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 26) succeeded 2nd Earl Bridgewater, 3rd Viscount Brackley, 3rd Baron Ellesmere. [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 22) by marriage Countess Bridgewater.
On 16 Mar 1651 [his son] Thomas Egerton was born to John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 27) and [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 24).
In 1652 [his brother-in-law] Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 21) and Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne (age 21) were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] William Cavendish 1st Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 59) and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Bassett Countess Newcastle upon Tyne. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward IV of England.
On 24 Aug 1653 [his daughter] Elizabeth Egerton Countess Leicester was born to John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 30) and [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 26).
On 12 Mar 1654 [his son] Charles Egerton of Newborough was born to John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 30) and [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 27).
On 24 Nov 1654 Oliver St John 2nd Earl Bolingbroke (age 21) and [his sister-in-law] Frances Cavendish Countess Bolingbroke were married. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] William Cavendish 1st Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 61) and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Bassett Countess Newcastle upon Tyne. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward IV of England.
In 1660 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 36) was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.
On 14 Jul 1663 [his wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater (age 36) died.
On 07 Nov 1664 [his son] John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater (age 17) and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Cranfield were married. She the daughter of James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex and Anne Bourchier Countess Middlesex (age 33). He the son of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 41) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Pepy's Diary. 01 May 1667. After dinner my Lord took me alone and walked with me, giving me an account of the meeting of the Commissioners for Accounts, whereof he is one. How some of the gentlemen, Garraway (age 50), Littleton (age 46), and others, did scruple at their first coming there, being called thither to act, as Members of Parliament, which they could not do by any authority but that of Parliament, and therefore desired the King's direction in it, which was sent for by my Lord Bridgewater (age 43), who brought answer, very short, that the King (age 36) expected they should obey his Commission. Then they went on, and observed a power to be given them of administering and framing an oath, which they thought they could not do by any power but Act of Parliament; and the whole Commission did think fit to have the judges' opinion in it; and so, drawing up their scruples in writing, they all attended the King, who told them he would send to the judges to be answered, and did so; who have, my Lord tells me, met three times about it, not knowing what answer to give to it; and they have met this week, doing nothing but expecting the solution of the judges in this point. My Lord tells me he do believe this Commission will do more hurt than good; it may undo some accounts, if these men shall think fit; but it can never clear an account, for he must come into the Exchequer for all this. Besides, it is a kind of inquisition that hath seldom ever been granted in England; and he believes it will never, besides, give any satisfaction to the People or Parliament, but be looked upon as a forced, packed business of the King, especially if these Parliament-men that are of it shall not concur with them: which he doubts they will not, and, therefore, wishes much that the King would lay hold of this fit occasion, and let the Commission fall.
Pepy's Diary. 19 Jun 1667. While we were discoursing over our publique misfortunes, I am called in to a large Committee of the Council: present the Duke of Albemarle (age 58), Anglesey (age 52), Arlington (age 49), Ashly (age 45), Carteret (age 57), Duncomb (age 44), Coventry (age 39), Ingram (age 52), Clifford (age 36), Lauderdale (age 51), Morrice (age 64), Manchester (age 65), Craven (age 59), Carlisle (age 38), Bridgewater (age 44).
Pepy's Diary. 30 Jul 1667. After dinner by coach to White Hall, calling on two or three tradesmen and paying their bills, and so to White Hall, to the Treasury-chamber, where I did speak with the Lords, and did my business about getting them to assent to 10 per cent. interest on the 11 months tax, but find them mightily put to it for money. Here I do hear that there are three Lords more to be added to them; my Lord Bridgewater (age 44), my Lord Anglesey (age 53), and my Lord Camberlaine. Having done my business, I to Creed's chamber, and thence out with Creed to White Hall with him; in our way, meeting with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Camberlain's secretary, on horseback, who stopped to speak with us, and he proved very drunk, and did talk, and would have talked all night with us, I not being able to break loose from him, he holding me so by the hand. But, Lord! to see his present humour, how he swears at every word, and talks of the King (age 37) and my Baroness Castlemayne (age 26) in the plainest words in the world. And from him I gather that the story I learned yesterday is true-that the King hath declared that he did not get the child of which she is conceived at this time, he having not as he says lain with her this half year. But she told him, "God damn me, but you shall own it!" It seems, he is jealous of Jermin, and she loves him so, that the thoughts of his marrying of my Lady Falmouth puts her into fits of the mother; and he, it seems, hath lain with her from time to time, continually, for a good while; and once, as this Cooling says, the King had like to have taken him a-bed with her, but that he was fain to creep under the bed into her closet.... [Missing text ' He says that for a good while the King's greatest pleasure hath been with his fingers, being able to do no more.']
Pepy's Diary. 30 Dec 1667. Thence to White Hall, and there to visit Sir G. Carteret (age 57), and there was with him a great while, and my Lady and they seem in very good humour, but by and by Sir G. Carteret and I alone, and there we did talk of the ruinous condition we are in, the King (age 37) being going to put out of the Council so many able men; such as my Lord Anglesey (age 53), Ashly (age 46), Hollis (age 68), Secretary Morrice (age 65) (to bring in Mr. Trevor), and the Archbishop of Canterbury (age 69), and my Lord Bridgewater (age 44). He tells me that this is true, only the Duke of York (age 34) do endeavour to hinder it, and the Duke of York himself did tell him so: that the King and the Duke of York do not in company disagree, but are friendly; but that there is a core in their hearts, he doubts, which is not to be easily removed; for these men do suffer only for their constancy to the Chancellor (age 58), or at least from the King's ill-will against him: that they do now all they can to vilify the clergy, and do accuse Rochester, Kent [Map] [Dolben]... and so do raise scandals, all that is possible, against other of the Bishops. He do suggest that something is intended for the Duke of Monmouth (age 18), and it may be, against the Queene (age 58) also: that we are in no manner sure against an invasion the next year: that the Duke of Buckingham (age 39) do rule all now, and the Duke of York comes indeed to the Caball, but signifies little there. That this new faction do not endure, nor the King, Sir W. Coventry (age 39); but yet that he is so usefull that they cannot be without him; but that he is not now called to the Caball. That my Lord of Buckingham, Bristoll (age 55), and Arlington (age 49), do seem to agree in these things; but that they do not in their hearts trust one another, but do drive several ways, all of them. In short, he do bless himself that he is no more concerned in matters now; and the hopes he hath of being at liberty, when his accounts are over, to retire into the country. That he do give over the Kingdom for wholly lost. So after some other little discourse, I away, meeting with Mr. Cooling. I with him by coach to the Wardrobe, where I never was since the fire in Hatton Garden [Map], but did not 'light: and he tells me he fears that my Lord Sandwich (age 42) will suffer much by Mr. Townsend's being untrue to him, he being now unable to give the Commissioners of the Treasury an account of his money received by many thousands of pounds, which I am troubled for.
In 1670 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 46) was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
In 1670 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 46) was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
In 1672 [his son-in-law] Robert Sidney 4th Earl of Leicester (age 23) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Egerton Countess Leicester (age 18) were married. She the daughter of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 48) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater. He the son of Philip Sidney 3rd Earl of Leicester (age 52) and Catherine Cecil. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 02 Apr 1673 [his son] John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater (age 26) and [his daughter-in-law] Jane Paulet Countess Bridgewater (age 17) were married at St Dionis Backchurch. She the daughter of Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton (age 43) and Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester. He the son of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 49) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 25 Dec 1676 [his former father-in-law] William Cavendish 1st Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 84) died at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire [Map]. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son [his former brother-in-law] Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 46) succeeded 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne, 2nd Earl Newcastle upon Tyne, 10th Baron Ogle.Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne (age 46) by marriage Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne.
On 15 Aug 1678 [his former sister-in-law] Frances Cavendish Countess Bolingbroke died.
In 1679 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 55) was appointed Privy Council.
Before 12 Feb 1679 [his son] Thomas Egerton (age 27) and [his daughter-in-law] Hester Busby were married. He the son of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 55) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
In 1681 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 57) was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.
On 26 Oct 1686 John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater (age 63) died. He was buried at Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. His son [his son] John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater (age 39) succeeded 3rd Earl Bridgewater, 4th Viscount Brackley, 4th Baron Ellesmere. [his daughter-in-law] Jane Paulet Countess Bridgewater (age 30) by marriage Countess Bridgewater.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: John Egerton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Egerton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Egerton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Egerton
GrandFather: Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Sparkes of Bickerton
Father: John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Ravenscroft
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Ravenscroft
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Ravenscroft of Bretton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Ravenscroft of Bretton
GrandMother: Elizabeth Ravenscroft
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Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Grosvenor
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Grosvenor
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cotton of Ridware
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cotton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Pole
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Cotton
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Brereton 10th Lord Brereton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Brereton
John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley 2nd Earl of Derby 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Strange 9th Baroness Strange of Knockin 5th Baroness Dunster 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings Baron Botreaux, Hungerford and Moleyns 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Derby 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Hungerford Baroness Hastings, 4th Baroness Hungerford, 5th Baroness Botreaux and 2nd Baroness Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Moleyns 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Howard Countess Derby 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Tilney
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Tilney Duchess Norfolk
GrandFather: Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Shepherd Lord" Clifford 10th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 1st Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne St John Baroness Clifford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 2nd Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Percy Baroness Clifford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Clifford Countess Derby Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Brandon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Brandon Countess Cumberland Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry VII of England and Ireland 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Tudor Queen Consort France Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth York Queen Consort England Daughter of King Edward IV of England
Mother: Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Spencer
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Spencer
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Empson
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Spencer
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Graunt
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Spencer
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Knightley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Knightley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Susan Knightley
GrandMother: Alice Spencer Countess Derby
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Kitson
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Donnington of Stoke Newington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath