[Illustration] This is the principal male branch of the great House
of Egerton, formerly Earls and Dukes of Bridgewater and Earl of
Wilton. The pedigree begins with Philip Goch, second son of David de
Malpas, surnamed le Clerk, which David was lord of a moiety of the
Barony of Malpas. The present family is descended from Sir Philip
Egerton, third son of Sir Rowland Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton,
Baronet, who died in 1698. The Baronetcy devolved on Sir John
Egerton, uncle of the present Baronet, on the death of the Earl of
Wilton, and extinction of the elder line, in 1814. Oulton came from
the heiress of Hugh Done, anno 1498. It is thus mentioned in
Leland's Itinerary: "The auncientest of the Egertons dwellith now at
Oldeton, and Egerton buildith ther now." (Itin. vii. fol. 42.)
Younger branch, Egerton-Warburton, of Warburton and Arley, in this
county.
See Wotton's Baronetage, i. 271; Brydges's Collins, iii. 170, v.
528; Ormerod, ii. 118, 350; and for many curious particulars of the
Bridgewater Egertons, see the Topographer, ii. 136, &c.
ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable_.
The pheons were the ancient arms of Malpas; the lion was added by
Uryan Egerton, about the middle of the fourteenth century; according
to tradition, an augmentation granted as a reward for his services
in the Scotch wars.
Present Representative, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, 10th
Baronet, M. P. for S. Cheshire.
CHOLMONDELEY OF CHOLMONDELEY, MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY 1815, EARL OF
CHOLMONDELEY 1706, BARON 1689.
[Illustration] Descended with the Egertons from the Barons of
Malpas, and immediately from Robert de Cholmondelegh, second son of
William Belward, lord of a moiety of the Barony of Malpas, and
younger brother of David the ancestor of the Egertons; which Robert
was seated at Cholmondeley in the reign of King John.
Younger branches. Cholmeley of Whitby, in Yorkshire, Baronet
1641, extinct 1688; descended from Robert, younger son of Hugh
Cholmondeley, temp. Edw. III. See the Memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmeley,
Knight and Baronet, a curious book privately printed in
1787.--Cholmeley of Brandsby, since the extinction of the Whitby
family the only representative of the Cholmondeleys of
Yorkshire.--Cholmeley of Easton, co. Lincoln, Baronet 1806,
descended from Sir Henry Cholmeley, of Burton Coggles, co. Lincoln,
who died in 1620.
Cholmondeley of Vale Royal in this county, Baron Delamere 1821,
descended from Thomas, younger son of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley of
Cholmondeley, who died in 1501.
See Ormerod, ii. 356, and for Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, ii. 78.
Brydges's Collins, iv. 16.
ARMS.--_Gules, two helmets in chief argent, garnished or, and in
base a garb of the third_.
Present Representative, George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of
Cholmondeley.