EGERTON, Sir John (c.1551-1614), of Egerton and Oulton, Cheshire, Wrinehill, Staffs., Talacre, Flints. and Bassinghall, London

b. c. 1551,STAC 8/129/6, ff. 22, 62, depositions by Edward and Roland Egerton. The inquisition post mortem relating to Egerton’s father suggests 1554/5: CHES 3/82/18. 1st s. of John Egerton of Egerton and Oulton and Jane, da. of Piers Mostyn of Talacre, Flints. educ. L. Inn 1602. m. (1) by 1573, Margaret (bur. 12 Feb. 1597), da. of Sir Roland Stanley of Hooton and Storeton, Cheshire, 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 6da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 23 Dec. 1602, Anne (d. 11 Dec. 1619), da. and h. of Robert Byrnand of Knaresborough, Yorks., wid. of Francis Trappes (will pr. 9 June 1574), Goldsmith of London and William Blount (bur. 15 Mar. 1597), Clothworker of St. Michael Bassishaw, London, s.p. G. Ormerod, Cheshire, ii. 629; Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 68; P.H. Lawson, ‘Fam. Memoranda of the Stanleys of Alderley’, Chester Arch. Soc. Jnl. n.s. xxiv. pt. 2, p. 84; St. Michael Bassishaw (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxxii), 121; L. Inn Admiss.; PROB 11/56, f. 216; 89, f. 150. He did not, as has been claimed, father a large family of bastards: J.C. Wedgwood, Parliamentary Hist. of Staffs. i. (Wm. Salt. Arch. Soc.), 408. suc. fa. 1591; CHES 3/82/18. Kntd. 8 Apr. 1599. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 95. d. 28 Apr. 1614. C142/401/104. sig. Jo[hn] Egerton.