Piers Egerton-Warburton was an English Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1876 to 1885.

Egerton-Warburton was the eldest son of Rowland Eyles Egerton

Rowland Egerton-Warburton

Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton was a landowner in Cheshire, England. He was a devout Anglican in the high church tradition and a local benefactor. He paid for the restoration of his parish church and for the building of two new churches in villages on his estates...

 and his wife Mary Brooke, daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet. His father assumed the additional surname Warburton on inheriting estates of his great uncle Sir Peter Warburton. Egerton-Warburton was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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. He was a captain in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry and a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for Cheshire.

In 1876 Egerton-Warburton was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Mid Cheshire

Mid Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He held the seat until 1885.

Egerton-Warburton lived at Arley Hall

Arley Hall

Arley Hall is a country house in the village of Arley, Cheshire, England, about south of Lymm and north of Northwich. It is home to the owner, Viscount Ashbrook and his family. The house is a Grade II* listed building, as is its adjacent chapel. Formal gardens to the southwest of the hall...

 near Northwich

Northwich

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 and died at the age of 74.

Egerton-Warburton married Hon. Antoinette Elizabeth Saumarez, daughter of 3rd Baron de Saumarez

Baron de Saumarez

Baron de Saumarez, in the Island of Guernsey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 September 1831 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Guernsey, on 13 June 1801. Lord de Saumarez was...

in 1880.

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