Nat Gould

Charles Egerton 1765-1845

Charles Egerton

Mary Coker

Charles Egerton was born in 1765, the son of John Egerton of Friday Street in the City of London and Hadley in Middlesex.

His father John Egerton 1763-1847 and grandfather Charles Egerton 1686-1747 were London merchants and freemen of the Haberdashers' Company.

The Egerton family had previously lived at Adstock in Buckinghamshire as gentry and rectors of the parish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, descending from a family at Wall Grange in Staffordshire (1).

Charles Egerton 1765-1846 was educated at Queen's College in Oxford, matriculating on 5 November 1782 aged seventeen. He graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1786 (2).

After ordination, he was appointed Vicar of Thorncombe in Devon (3) from 1790 to 1833, and afterwards becoming Vicar of Epping in Essex and later Vicar of Hextable in Kent.

He married Mary Coker (4). She was descended from William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (5).

He died at Kendal Lodge, Epping in Essex in 1845 aged 80 years (6).

(1) Wall Grange near Leek in Staffordshire, an estate owned by Trentham Priory, had been leased by 1484 to Hugh Egerton, and to William Egerton in 1509-1510. Their descendants were granted a forty-year lease in 1558, which was evidently renewed in 1606. The Egerton family continued at Wall Grange until it was sequestrated by the Parliamentarians between 1649 and 1654 during the Civil War: British History Online: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford Volume 7 Leek and the Moorlands (1996).
(2) Alumni Oxonienses Volume II 1715-1886 page 415. This records his father as being John Egerton of Chelmsford in Essex.
(3) Thorncombe was an enclave of Devon within Dorset until 1844 when it was transferred to Dorset.
(4) Diaries and accounts of the Egerton family, sometime of Bunbury 1738-1853 Cheshire and Chester Archives DDX597; and the Bunbury Collection D/3277.
(5) A History of All Saints’ School, Bloxham, 1860-1910 with Supplement, 1910-1925 (1925) page 12.
(6) Alumni Oxonienses Volume II 1715-1886 page 415.