Earl of Egmont is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that dates to 1733. Lord Egmont holds the subsidiary titles Viscount Perceval, of Kanturk in the County of Cork (created 1723), Baron Lovel and Holland, of Enmore in the County of Somerset (1762), Baron Perceval, of Burton in the County of Cork (1715), Baron Arden, of Lohort Castle in the County of Cork (1770), and Baron Arden, of Arden in the County of Warwick (1802). All are in the Peerage of Ireland except the Barony of Lovel and Holland (Peerage of Great Britain) and the 1802 Barony of Arden (Peerage of the United Kingdom).
EGMONT John Perceval, 1st earl of Egmont (1683-1748), Irish politician, and partner with J. Oglethorpe in founding the American colony of Georgia, was created earl in 1733.
The first earl of Egmont (who had been made Baron Perceval in 1715, and Viscount Perceval in 1723) is chiefly important for his connexion with the colonization of Georgia, and for his voluminous letters and writings on biography and genealogy.
His eldest son succeeded as 3rd earl, and the eldest by his second marriage (with Catherine Compton, baroness of Arden in Ireland) was in 1802 created Baron Arden of the United Kingdom, a title which subsequently became merged in the Egmont earldom.
THE 11th EARL OF EGMONT, who has died in Alberta aged 87, became one of the Peerage's most romantic figures at the age of 15 when he reluctantly moved from a two-room prairie shack to Avon Castle, Hampshire, on his father's inheritance of the earldom.
The new Earl and his son excited a fresh round of press interest when their claim to both the land and titles were disputed by two other equally colourful claimants: a Hornsey baker, who said he had been born in Australia as the son of the sixth Earl's brother, and a retired Lancastrian optician.
Egmont continued to keep largely to himself, though he was delighted on one occasion to be introduced to a member of his family in Britain, who was staying on a neighbouring ranch.
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