3-028-758 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Movers and Seconders of the Address: Captain F. Egerton, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'In the House of Commons the gentleman who moved the Address was the Hon. Francis Egerton...The hon. gentleman...entered the Royal Navy, in which service he is now a Captain. His professional services have been such as to entitle him to the distinction of being selected to be one of the naval Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, to which he was appointed in 1856. In 1865 he married Lady Louisa Caroline, daughter of the present Duke of Devonshire, thus becoming connected with a powerful Liberal family - the traditions of his own being Conservative...Captain Egerton...stood for the new district of East Derbyshire, the county of the Cavendishes, with whom he is allied, on Liberal principles of the advanced school, and was returned at the head of the poll...In the conduct of the motion for the Address he exhibited good qualities; for, though his manner is quiet, he seems to be well imbued with good sense, and is at no loss for words in expressing himself; and, as he kept strictly to the topics of the Speech from the Throne, his speech was every way well fitted for the occasion. He wore the uniform of a Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, on duty'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.