Lieutenant Rowland Grey-Egerton
(1839-1923)
20 October 1862

 

Volume 9, page 273, sitting number 12,088.

[The sitter is identified as Rutland Egerton in the Silvy daybooks.]

Rowland Grey-Egerton was born in Cheshire in 1838, the younger son of the palaeontologist and politician Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, tenth baronet. According to Hart’s Army List (1867), he joined the Army as an Ensign on 24 October 1857, rising to the rank of Lieutenant by purchase on 18 November 1859 in the service of the Rifle Brigade.

He appears on the 1881 census living at 28B Albemarle Street, the London home of his parents. Also present on the night of the census were nine servants, including two butlers and a footman. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Egerton never married. He died, aged 84, on 2 April 1923 at 2 Carlisle Place, Westminster, after a short illness. He left an estate valued at £59,079.