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Francis Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1833)
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1833–1857)

1800–57

Statesman and poet. Assumed the surname of Egerton on the death of his father in 1833. Created earl of Ellesmere, 1846.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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