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unusual facts about Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley


Timothy Turner

In the contemporary debates between Sir Edward Coke and Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, Turner's notebooks reveal him to have felt a strong reaction against Ellesmere's claims for the royal prerogative as "transcendent to the common law".


Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton

The N. Y. Y. C. yacht America won the event and its silver trophy was subsequently renamed the America's Cup.

Lord Wilton was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2001 in a ceremony at the Royal Yacht Squadron during the America's Cup Jubilee.

In this capacity, he was most notable for inviting members of the New York Yacht Club to race in the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta open to all nations around the Isle of Wight on 22 August 1851.


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