Francis Leveson-Gower, son of the Marquess of Stafford, attended Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford, before being elected to Parliament in 1822. He assumed the name of Egerton in 1833 when he inherited from the third duke of Bridgewater; he was made earl of Ellesmere in 1846. Egerton served in government, was a member of the Roxburghe Club, and in 1838 was the first president of the Camden Society.
TEXT RECORDS:
1827The Drachenfels.
PUBLICATIONS:
Translations from the German and original poems. 1824.
Dramatic scenes, founded on Victor Hugo's tragedy of Hernani. 1831.
Speech to the electors of the southern district of Lancashire. 1834.
Mediterranean sketches. 1843.
On the life and character of the Duke of Wellington. 1852.
The Eighteenth of November, 1852. 1853.
The pilgrimage and other poems. 1856.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Eton College
Christ Church College Oxford
poet
translator
Member of Parliament
antiquary
The St. James's Chronicle
Quarterly Review
Literary Souvenir
The Keepsake
The Janus
REFERENCE:
DNB; not NCBEL.
Fraser's Magazine (July 1835) 43 [portrait]; Illustrated London News 8 (1846) 60 [portrait]; obituary in The Times (19 February 1857); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 203 (March 1857) 358-59; Journal of British Archaeological Association 14 (1858) 185-86; Illustrated London News 36 (1860) 563, 568 [portrait]; Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921); memoir in Egerton, Personal Reminiscences of the Duke of Wellington (1903); Dewey Ganzel, in Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier (1982).
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
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