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unusual facts about Duke of Bridgewater



Albert Bridge, Manchester

A smaller arch on the Manchester bank of the river crossed a towpath, giving access to the Duke of Bridgewater's quay.

Maria Alford

On 10 February she was married at Castle Ashby to John Hume Cust, viscount Alford, elder son of John Cust, first Earl Brownlow, and the heir to a portion of the large estates of Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater.


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Bridgewater House, Westminster

It was famous, in both incarnations, as the site of the Stafford Galley (in Cleveland House) and Bridgewater Gallery (in Bridgewater House), where the collections of paintings of the Duke of Bridgewater and his nephew and heir George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (whose second son Ellesmere was) were on at least semi-public display.

Earl of Bridgewater

A scoundrel claiming to be the long-lost but rightful Duke of Bridgewater appears in the 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which is set before the American Civil War.

Robert Bradshaw

Robert Haldane Bradshaw (1759–1835), agent to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater