Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803
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Name (Latin)
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, Duke of, 1736-1803
Other forms of name
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3d Duke of, 1736-1803
Bridgwater, Duke of, 1736-1803
Egerton, Francis, Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803
Date of birth
1736-05-21
Date of death
1803-03-08
Associated country
Great Britain
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Great Britain. An act to enable the Most Noble Francis, Duke of Bridgewater, to make a navigable cut or canal from or near Worsley Mill ... 1828.
- LC data base, 2-23-88(hdg.: Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3d Duke of, 1736-1803)
- MdU/G-K files(usage: Duke of Bridgwater)
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Duke of Bridgewater Francis Egerton
Craig - Painter
E Scriven - Engraver, Public domain
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Thomas Pennant, Public domain
File:Bridgewater Hall 2015 002.jpg
Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Bridgewater Monument from Pitstone Common - geograph.org.uk - 83832.jpg
Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0
File:BrownManchesterMuralBridgewater.jpg
Manchester City Council.
, Public domain
File:Line engraving of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.jpg
Unknown artist, Public domain
File:Memorial to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.jpg
Cnbrb, CC0
File:Worsley (6526585291).jpg
Craig Sunter from Manchester, UK, CC BY 2.0
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Craig Sunter from Manchester, UK, CC BY 2.0
Wikipedia description:
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (21 May 1736 – 8 March 1803), known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman from the Egerton family. He was the youngest son of the 1st Duke. He did not marry, and the dukedom expired with him, although the earldom was inherited by a cousin, Lieutenant-General John Egerton. A pioneer of canal construction, he is famed as the "father of British inland navigation", who commissioned the Bridgewater Canal—often said to be the first true canal in Britain, and the modern world. The canal was built for him by his agent John Gilbert with advice from James Brindley to service his coal mines at Worsley, in Lancashire.
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