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See also:BRIDGEWATER, See also:FRANCIS See also:EGERTON, 3RP See also:DUKE OF (1736-1803) , the originator of See also:British inland See also:navigation, younger son of the ist duke, was See also:born on the 21st of May 1736. Scroop, 1st duke of Bridgewater (1681-1745), was the son of the 3rd See also:earl of Bridgewater, and was created a duke in 1720; he was the See also:great-See also:grandson of See also:John Egerton, ist earl of Bridgewater (d. 1649; cr. 1617), whose name is associated with the See also:production of See also:Milton's See also:Comus; and the latter was the son of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Egerton (154o-1617), See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's See also:lord keeper and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I.'s lord See also:chancellor, who was created See also:baron of See also:Ellesmere in 1603, and in 1616 See also:Viscount See also:Brackley (q.v.).
Francis Egerton succeeded to the dukedom at the See also:age of twelve on the See also:death of his See also:brother, the 2nd duke. As a See also:child he was sickly and of such unpromising intellectual capacity that at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:idea of cutting the See also:entail was seriously entertained. Shortly. after attaining his See also:majority he became engaged to the beautiful duchess of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, but her refusal to give up the acquaintance of her See also:sister, See also:Lady See also:Coventry, led to the breaking off of the match. Thereupon the duke See also:broke up his See also:London See also:establishment, and retiring to his See also:estate at See also:Worsley, devoted himself to the making of canals. The navigable See also:canal from Worsley to See also:Manchester which he projected for the transport of the See also:coal obtained on his estates was (with the exception of the Sankey canal) the first great undertaking of the See also:kind executed in Great See also:Britain in See also:modern times. The construction of this remarkable See also:work, with its famous See also:aqueduct across the Irwell, was carried out by James See also:Brindley, the celebrated engineer. The completion of this canal led the duke to undertake a still more ambitious work. In 1762 he obtained See also:parliamentary See also:powers to provide an improved waterway between See also:Liverpool and Manchester by means of a canal. The difficulties encountered in the See also:execution of the latter work were still more formidable than those of the Worsley canal, involving, as they did, the carrying of the canal over See also:Sale See also:Moor See also:Moss. But the See also:genius of Brindley, his engineer, proved See also:superior to all obstacles, and though at one See also:period of the undertaking the See also:financial re-See also:sources of the duke were almost exhausted, the work was carried to a triumphant conclusion. The untiring perseverance displayed by the duke in surmounting the various difficulties that retarded the accomplishment of his projects, together with the pecuniary restrictions he imposed on himself in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:supply the necessary See also:capital (at one time he reduced his See also:personal expenses to £400 a See also:year), affords an instructive example of that See also:energy and self-denial on which the success of great undertakings so much depends. Both these canals were completed when the duke was only See also:thirty-six years of age, and the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in extending them and in improving his estates ; and during the latter years of his life he derived a princely income from the success of his enterprise. Though a steady supporter of See also:Pitt's See also:administration, he never took any prominent See also:part in politics.
He died unmarried on the 8th of See also:March 1803, when the ducal See also:title became See also:extinct, but the earldom of Bridgewater passed to a See also:cousin, John See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Egerton, who became 7th earl. By his will he devised his canals and estates on See also:trust, under which his See also:nephew, the See also:marquess of See also:Stafford (afterwards first duke of See also:Sutherland), became the first See also:beneficiary, and next his son Francis Leveson See also:Gower (afterwards first earl of Ellesmere) and his issue. In order that the trust should last as See also:long as possible, an extra-See also:ordinary use was made of the legal See also:rule that See also:property may besettled for the duration of lives in being and twenty-one years after, by choosing a great number of persons connected with the duke and their living issue and adding to them the peers ,who had taken their seats in the See also:House of Lords on or before the duke's decease. Though the last of the peers died in 1857, one of the commoners survived till the 19th of See also:October 1883, and consequently the trust did not expire till the 19th of October 1903, when the whole property passed under the undivided See also:control of the earl of Ellesmere. The canals, however, had in 1872 been transferred to the Bridgewater Navigation See also:Company, by whom they were sold in 1887 to the Manchester See also:Ship Canal Company.
End of Article: BRIDGEWATER, FRANCIS EGERTON, 3RP DUKE OF (1736-1803)
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