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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, Earl of, 1800-1857 NRA: Egerton Francis (1800-1857) 1st Earl of Ellesmere DNB: Egerton [formerly Leveson-Gower], Francis, first earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), politician and poet LBT ID: LdElles1 VIAF ID: 47143145 LOC ID: n82157840 | B/BAP: 1800-01-01 DIED: 1857-02-18 |
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Poet, statesman, and Tory MP; a younger son the second marquess of Stafford, he was
educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, was chief secretary for Ireland (1828-30), and
translated Goethe and Schiller and contributed articles to the Quarterly
Review.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF Francis Egerton, first earl of Ellesmere: Sydney Smith to Lord Francis Egerton, 18 February 1842 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) | |
