John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland
John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland (* May 10, 1915, † 21 September 2000), to 1944 Viscount Brackley and known as The Earl of Ellesmere from 1944 to 1963, was a British peer, art collector and politician of the Conservative Party.
Life and career
Egerton was the son of John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Violet Lambton. He attended Eton College and Trinity College, sailed with the British Expeditionary Force to France and was captured in 1940 in Saint -Valery -en- Caux. He spent four years in a POW camp. After his return in 1944 he inherited his father's title as Earl of Ellesmere.
After the death of his distant cousin, George Sutherland - Leveson - Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland, in 1963, he inherited the title, as no closer male heir was available. However Egerton did not inherit the estate of Sutherland or the Dunrobin Castle, which went to Elizabeth Janson, Geordies niece, the Countess of Sutherland was.
The estate tax forced him to numerous parts of the known art collection of the family to sell.
Membership in the House of Lords
After the death of his father he inherited the title of Earl of Ellesmere and the time associated with it seat in the House of Lords.
- Session 1997/1998: 0 days, no oath
Although he was a member of the Conservative Party, he took, according to the Guardian obituary never his seat. In Hansard but are speeches by him in the period from 1944 to 1959 to find. Among his later subordinate title of the Earl of Ellesmere
Politically, he was a County Councillor in Berwickshire active, especially at the local level. In 1984 he sold five masterpieces opening his garden to the public. Ten years later, he was against the relocation of several of his paintings in a new gallery in Glasgow by the National Gallery of Scotland. He preferred that they were distributed within Scotland.
Family
He married on April 29, 1939 Lady Diana Percy (* 23 November 1917; † June 16, 1978 ), the daughter of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland. After the death of his first wife he married on August 16, 1979, the former interior designer Evelyn Moubray.