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Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

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Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts. Ellesmere Island, a major island in Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, was named after him.

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Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts. Ellesmere Island, a major island in Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, was named after him.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).