Seymour John Grey "Sim" Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton

Earl of Wilton

Earl of Wilton, of Wilton Castle in the County of Hereford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Grey de Wilton, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...

 (20 January 1839 – 3 January 1898) was a peer of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. He was the owner and namesake of the Lord Wilton

Lord Wilton

The Lord Wilton Guarnerius, sometimes called the ex-Jehudhi Mehudin, is an antique and valuable violin fabricated by Italian luthier, Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri . It was crafted in 1742 in the city of Cremona. It was named for a Seymour Egerton, 4th Earl of Wilton, a musician, associate of Arthur...

 violin. A musician, he was an associate of Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...

, of Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...

. His wife Laura Caroline (1842–1916), daughter of William Russell and and Emma Campbell, was a noted beauty in the contemporary society scene. They married on 9 August 1862 and had two children, Arthur George Egerton, 5th Earl of Wilton (1863–1915), and Elizabeth Emma Geraldine Egerton (1865–1953). After his death, in 1899, his wife married Sir Frederick John William Johnstone.

His elder brother was Arthur Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton

Arthur Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton

Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton , known as Viscount Grey de Wilton from 1833 to 1882, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament....

 (1833–1885). His father was Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton

Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton

Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton GCH, PC , known as Thomas Grosvenor until 1814, was a British nobleman and Tory politician...

 (1799–1882) and his mother was Mary Margaret Stanley, daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby PC , styled Lord Strange between 1771 and 1776, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries...

. His paternal grandfather was Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, KG was the son of the 1st Earl Grosvenor, whom he succeeded in 1802 as 2nd Earl Grosvenor. He was created Marquess of Westminster in 1831. He was an English Member of Parliament and an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster...

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