Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

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Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet (November 13, 1806 – April 6, 1881) was an English palaeontologist and the son of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, the 9th baronet.

He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1828. While at college his interest in geology was aroused by the lectures of William Buckland, and by his acquaintance with William D. Conybeare.

Subsequently when travelling in Switzerland with Lord Cole (later to be 3rd earl of Enniskillen) they were introduced to Prof. L Agassiz at Neufchâtel, and determined to make a special study of fossil fish. During the course of fifty years they gradually gathered together two of the largest and finest of private collections—that of Sir Philip Grey Egerton being at Oulton Park, Tarporley, Cheshire.

Egerton described the structure and affinities of numerous species in the publications of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Magazine and the Decades of the Geological Survey; and in recognition of his services the Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1873 by the Geological Society. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831, and was a trustee of the British Museum.

As a member of Parliament he represented the city of Chester in 1830, the southern division of Cheshire from 1835 until 1868, and the western division from 1868 to 1881. He died in London on April 6, 1881. His collection of fossil fishes is now in the British Museum. He is commemorated in the name of the Rusty-fronted Barwing Actinodura egertoni.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Viscount Belgrave Lord Robert Grosvenor	Member for Chester with Lord Robert Grosvenor 1830–1831	Succeeded by: Lord Robert Grosvenor Foster Cunliffe-Offley
Preceded by: George Wilbraham Earl Grosvenor	Member for South Cheshire with George Wilbraham 1835–1841, John Tollemache 1841–1868 1835–1868	Succeeded by: Constituency abolished
Preceded by: Constituency created	Member for West Cheshire with John Tollemache 1868–1872, Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache 1872–1881 1868–1881	Succeeded by: Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache Henry James Tollemache
Peerage of England
Preceded by: Philip Grey Egerton	Baronet (of Egerton, Cheshire) 1829–1881	Succeeded by: Philip le Belward Grey Egerton

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.