Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

Politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts.

National Gallery Trustee (1835–1857).

History of Parliament states that he ‘voted against the motion condemning the Jamaican slave trials’: (Terry Jenkins, ‘LEVESON GOWER, Lord Francis (1800-1857), of 12 Albemarle Street, Mdx.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832, <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/leveson-gower-lord-francis-1800-1857> accessed 4 August 2021).

History of Parliament states that he ‘praised ministers’ efforts to promote worldwide abolition of the slave trade‘: (Terry Jenkins, ’LEVESON GOWER, Lord Francis (1800-1857), of 12 Albemarle Street, Mdx.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832, <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/leveson-gower-lord-francis-1800-1857> accessed 4 August 2021).

Donor: presented in 1838: NG147–148.

G. C. Boase and H. C. G. Matthew, 'Egerton [formerly Leveson-Gower], Francis, first earl of Ellesmere', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8585
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T. Jenkins, 'LEVESON GOWER, Lord Francis (1800-1857), of 12 Albemarle Street, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/leveson-gower-lord-francis-1800-1857
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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S. Whittingham, 'Egerton family (2) Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T025021
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