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Thomas Egerton (by 1521 – 1590/97) was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He served as Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London from 1552 to 1555. In this capacity, he and John Godsalve issued the double-faced shillings of Philip and Mary .
Thomas Egerton may refer to: Thomas Egerton (mercer) (by 1521–c. 1597), Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint; Thomas Egerton (killed 1599) (1574–1599), MP for Cheshire; Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540–1617), Lord Keeper 1596–1616; Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton (1749–1814) Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton (1799–1882)
Master of the Mint is a title within the Royal Mint given to the most senior person responsible for its operation. It was an office in the governments of Scotland and England, and later Great Britain and then the United Kingdom, between the 16th and 19th centuries. Until 1699, the appointment was usually for life.
Another general restructuring of the Mint in the spring of 1552 resulted in the appointment of Thomas Egerton as Under-Treasurer and Stanley's promotion to Comptroller. [7] Egerton was dismissed from office by Mary I's government in 1555, and from that time until 1571 control of the Tower Mint was essentially in the hands of Thomas Stanley. On ...
Arms of Egerton: Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable [1] Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, PC (c. 1540 – 15 March 1617), known as Lord Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616, was an English nobleman, judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.
Thomas Egerton (1749 – 1814), who became 7th Baronet in 1756, Baron Grey de Wilton in 1784, as well as Viscount Grey de Wilton and Earl of Wilton in 1801. Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater The Bridgewater Chapel at St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Little Gaddesden, where many Egerton family members are buried
The Hon. Thomas Egerton, of Tatton Park, Cheshire, youngest son of the second Earl of Bridgewater, was the grandfather of Hester Egerton (d. 1780). She married William Tatton. In 1780 they assumed by Royal licence the surname of Egerton in lieu of Tatton. Their great-grandson William Tatton Egerton was created Baron Egerton in 1859.
He was also appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse to Prince Edward in 1756, Surveyor of the King's Gardens from 1764 to 1769 and Master of the Mint from 1769 to 1784. [6] In 1800, he was elevated in the Peerage as 1st Viscount Chelsea and 1st Earl Cadogan.