John Egerton was an Anglican

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

 bishop.

Family

Egerton was the eldest son of Henry Egerton

Henry Egerton

Henry Egerton was a British clergyman.Egerton was a younger son of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, by his second wife Lady Jane, daughter of Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton. Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, was his elder brother...

, the 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...

, himself a younger son of the 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...

. Egerton served under his father as Dean of Hereford and was later Bishop of Bangor

Bishop of Bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor.The diocese covers the counties of Anglesey, most of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire and a small part of Montgomeryshire...

 from 1756-68, Bishop of Lichfield

Bishop of Lichfield

The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 4,516 km² of the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands. The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed...

 from 1768-71 and Bishop of Durham from 1771 until his death in 1787. On 21 November 1748, he had married his cousin, Lady Anne Grey (a daughter and coheiress of the 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent KG PC was a British politician and courtier.-Family:He was a son of Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent and Mary Grey, 1st Baroness Lucas of Crudwell...

) and they had three children:

• Amelia (1751-1809), married Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet.
• John William, later 7th Earl of Bridgewater
  John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater
  John William Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater FRS , known as John Egerton until 1803, was a British soldier and Tory politician....
  
   (1753-1823)
• Francis Henry, later 8th Earl of Bridgewater
  Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater
  Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater , known as Francis Egerton until 1823, was a noted British eccentric, and supporter of natural theology....
  
   (1756-1829)

Lady Anne died in 1780, and on 31 March 1782, Egerton married Mary Boughton, a sister of Sir Edward Boughton. Egerton died in 1787 and the title Earl of Bridgewater

Earl of Bridgewater

-History:The earldom was first created in 1538 for Henry Daubeny, 9th Baron Daubeny. The Daubeney family descended from Elias Daubeny, who in 1295 was summoned by writ to the Model Parliament as Lord Daubeny. The eighth Baron was created Baron Daubeny by letters patent in the Peerage of England in...

 (a subsidiary title of his childless-cousin, the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater , known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman, the younger son of the 1st Duke...

) later passed to his eldest son in 1803.