Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of, celebrated for his self-sacrificing devotion to the improvement and extension of canal navigation in England, embarking in it all his wealth, in which he was aided by the skill of Brindley; he did not take part in politics, though he was a supporter of Pitt; died unmarried (1736‒1803).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bridgetown * Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of