Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.
Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. Politician, poet.
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Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
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