Egerton, Philip de Malpas Grey, Sir, 1806-1881
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Egerton, P. de M. G., Sir, 1806-1881
Egerton, P. de M. Grey, Sir, 1806-1881
Egerton, P. M. Grey, Sir, 1806-1881
Egerton, Philip Grey, Sir, 1806-1881
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found: On a fossil fish from the table-land of the Deccan, in the peninsula of India, [1851]p. 272 (Sir P. de M.G. Egerton)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 11 Apr. 2014(Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS (13 November 1806-6 April 1881) was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician)
found: OCLC, viewed 11 Apr. 2014(hdg.: Egerton, Philip de Malpas Grey)
found: Alphabetical catalogue of type specimens of fossil fishes in the collection of Sir Philip Grey Egerton at Oulton Park, 1869.
found: Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Second series, volume VII, Part 4, 1856:pages 226-227 (Sir P. De M. Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. &c.; P. M. Grey Egerton; contribution: Note on the fish-remains from Styl Krantz, South Africa)
found: The History of Parliament (website), viewed January 31, 2025(EGERTON, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey, 10th bt. (1806-1881), of Oulton Park, Cheshire and 18 Jermyn Street, Mdx.; born 13 Nov. 1806, first son of Rev. Philip Grey Egerton, rect. of Malpas and Tarporley, Cheshire, and Rebecca, daughter of Josias Du Pré of Wilton Park, Bucks; educated at Eton 1820-24, and Christ Church, Oxford, 1825, where he studied geology and became a friend of William Willoughby, Viscount Cole (later 3rd earl of Enniskillen), which whom he travelled in Germany, Switzerland and Italy in search of fossil fishes, the subject of his work and reputation as a palaeontologist; Egerton graduated in 1828 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Geological Society the following year; succeeded his father as 10th baronet on 13 Dec. 1829; married a daughter of the leading Cheshire Tory George John Legh in March 1832; stood for the new Cheshire South constituency in December 1832, narrowly defeated; he was returned without a contest in 1835 and remained a Member for life, coming in for West Cheshire in 1868 after boundary changes; died 5 April 1881 in his London home of a heart attack brought on by bronchitis; at the time of his death he was the antiquary to the Royal Academy, a trustee of the British Museum and of the Royal College of Surgeons, a member of the senate of the University of London, and had seats on the councils of the Royal Society and the Geological Society, which awarded him the Woollaston medal in 1873 for services to palaeontology; first recipient in 1879 of the Kingsley Medal, awarded by the Chester Society of Natural Sciences, of which he was vice-president; as he had wished, the British Museum purchased his fossil fish collection for the Natural History Museum, and his original drawings of them were donated to the Geological Society; this information originally published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009)) - http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1820-1832/member/egerton-sir-philip-1806-1881
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2014-04-11: new
2025-02-02: revised
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