Henry Egerton was a British clergyman.

Egerton was a younger son of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater was the eldest son of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Elizabeth Cavendish. His maternal grandparents were William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his first wife Elizabeth Basset.He served as a Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire as...

, by his second wife Lady Jane, daughter of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton

Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton

Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, PC , son of John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester. He became the sixth Marquess of Winchester on his father's death in 1675, was Member of Parliament for Winchester and then for Hampshire from 1660 to 1675...

. Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater

Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater

Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater , known as Viscount Brackley from 1687 to 1701 and as the Earl of Bridgewater from 1701 to 1720, was a British peer and courtier...

, was his elder brother. He was Bishop of Hereford

Bishop of Hereford

The Bishop of Hereford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury.The see is in the City of Hereford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert which was founded as a cathedral in 676.The Bishop's residence is...

 between 1723 and his death in 1746.

Egerton married Lady Elizabeth Adriana, daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, Baron Bentinck of Diepenheim and Schoonheten, KG, PC was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of England. He was steady, sensible, modest...

, in 1720. Their son the Right Reverend John Egerton

John Egerton (bishop)

John Egerton was an Anglican bishop.-Family:Egerton was the eldest son of Henry Egerton, the Bishop of Hereford, himself a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater. Egerton served under his father as Dean of Hereford and was later Bishop of Bangor from 1756-68, Bishop of Lichfield from 1768-71...

 became Bishop of Durham and was the father of the seventh and eighth Earls of Bridgewater. Egerton died in April 1746. Lady Elizabeth survived him by almost twenty years and died in 1765.