
politician
British politician (1753-1823)
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John William Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater, FRS, known as John Egerton until 1803, was a British cavalry officer, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1803 when he succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Bridgewater. He was from the Egerton family.