Background
He was the eldest surviving son of William Tatton, later Egerton and educated at Eton College (1796) and probably Brasenose College, Oxford (1800).
He was the eldest surviving son of William Tatton, later Egerton and educated at Eton College (1796) and probably Brasenose College, Oxford (1800).
He completed the large country house built by his father and furnished it with furniture from Gillows of Lancaster and London.
In 1806 he succeeded his father, inheriting the large Tatton Hall estate in north Cheshire. He was a Captain in the Royal Cheshire militia in 1803, lieutenant-colonel in the Macclesfield regiment in 1809 and captain (1831) and then lieutenant-colonel in the King’s Cheshire yeomanry (1831). He was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire for 1808-1809 and elected Member of Parliament for Cheshire in 1812, sitting until 1831.
Their eldest son and heir, William Tatton Egerton, became the 1st Baron Egerton.
A younger son, Edward Egerton, was an Member of Parliament for Macclesfield and Cheshire East. He died in 1856.
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