Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet, known as Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician born November 13, 1806, who died April 5, 1881, in London, and who inherited his baronetcy in 1829, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831, and sat as a Member of Parliament for Chester from 1830 to 1831, South Cheshire from 1835 to 1868 and West Cheshire from 1868 to 1881. His geological work centered on fossil fish, and over fifty years he assembled, alongside Lord Cole, two of the largest and finest private fossil fish collections of the period, now held by the Natural History Museum in London. He served as a trustee of the British Museum and of the University of London Senate from 1834, received the Wollaston Medal in 1873, and is commemorated in the names of the extinct fish genus Egertonia and the fossil brittle star Palaeocoma egertoni.