Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 12th Baronet explained

Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, Bt
Honorific Suffix:JP DP
Birth Date:29 April 1864
Parents:Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet
Hon. Henrietta Denison
Spouse:
Children:3
Relations:Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet (grandfather)
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough (grandfather)

Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton, 12th Baronet JP DP (29 April 1864 – 4 July 1937) was a British soldier and aristocrat who was a member of the Grey and Egerton families.

Early life

Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton was born on 29 April 1864. He was the only son of Sir Philip le Belward Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet (1833–1891) and Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth Sophia Denison (1836–1924), who married in July 1861. His only sibling was sister Violet Edith Grey-Egerton, who married John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly in 1897.

His paternal grandparents were Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet and the former Anna Elizabeth Legh. His grandfather was a Member of Parliament for Chester, South Cheshire, and West Cheshire. His aunt, Cecily Louisa Grey-Egerton was married to Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk. His mother was the eldest daughter of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough and Hon. Henrietta Maria Forester (fourth daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester).

Career

He served as a Captain with the 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (which served in South Africa from 1901 to 1902), and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Force Reserve, formerly Earl of Chester's Yeomanry.

Upon his father's death on 2 September 1891, he became the 12th Baronet Grey Egerton baronet of Egerton and Oulton.

Personal life

On 4 January 1893, he was married to Mary "May" Caroline Campbell Cuyler (d. 1950) in London.[1] Their engagement had been announced in The New York Times on October 29, 1893.[2] May was a daughter of Alice (née Holden) Cuyler and Maj. James Wayne Cuyler of Baltimore, Maryland,[3] and a great-granddaughter of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States James Moore Wayne.[4] Before their divorce in May 1905,[5] they were the parents of twin sons and a daughter:

After his divorce from his first wife, she married Richard McCreery in 1907,[6] and he remarried to Aimée Mary (née Cumming) Clarke on 26 April 1910. Aimée, the former wife of Sir Rupert Clarke, 2nd Baronet (they divorced in 1909), was a daughter of Hon. Thomas Forrest Cumming, an Australian sheep breeder and Legislative Council for Western Province.

Sir Philip died on 4 July 1937. As he was predeceased by both of his sons, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by the Rev. Sir Brooke de Malpas Egerton (later Grey-Egerton), his first cousin once removed, who was himself succeeded by Sir Philip Reginald le Belward Grey Egerton, 14th Baronet, his first cousin once removed. His widow, Lady Grey-Egerton died on 25 November 1958.

Descendants

Through his daughter Cecily, he was a grandfather to three grandchildren: Cynthia Mary Denise Prideaux-Brune (b. 1919), Philip Egerton Edmund Prideaux-Brune (b. 1921), and Rowland Denys Charles Prideaux-Brune (1925–2008).[7]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Miss Cuyler's Wedding.; Arrangements for the Ceremony to-Day in London. . 23 October 2019 . . 4 January 1893.
  2. News: A Baltimore Girl Engaged. . 23 October 2019 . . 29 October 1892.
  3. News: Lady Grey Egerton. . 23 October 2019 . . 6 February 1898.
  4. Book: Nicoll . Maud Churchill . The Earliest Cuylers in Holland and America and Some of Their Descendants: Researches Establishing a Line from Tydeman Cuyler of Hasselt, 1456 . 1912 . T.A. Wright, Printer and Publisher . 52 . 23 October 2019 . en.
  5. News: GRAY-EGERTON DIVORCE.; Obtained in London from Sir Philip by His American Wife. . 23 October 2019 . . 27 June 1905.
  6. News: RICHARD M'CREERY WEDDED IN LONDON; Lady Grey-Egerton Becomes the Bride of a New Yorker. COUPLE BOTH DIVORCED Bride a Daughter of an Army Officer -- Bridegroom Descended from Justice. . 23 October 2019 . . 3 March 1907.
  7. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.