Alfred Mordaunt Egerton

Egerton was schooled at Eton College between 1856 and 1859.^[8] In 1861, he purchased a commission as an ensign in the Rifle Brigade.^[9] He served with the 2nd Battalion in India from 1863 to 1866, purchasing a promotion to lieutenant in 1865.^[10] Egerton was subsequently with the 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in Canada (1866–68) and then moved over to the Royal Horse Guards in 1869.^[1][11]

By then a captain, in 1878 the Duke of Connaught appointed Egerton his equerry in the room of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Frederick Pickard.^[12] In 1881, he was promoted to major and in 1888 retired with the honorary rank of colonel.^[13][14] He served as Comptroller and Treasurer to the Duke of Connaught from 1890.^[1] A keen shooter, rower, cricketer and cyclist, for his royal service Egerton was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1896, and a Commander (1901) and then Knight Commander (1905) of the Royal Victorian Order.^[1] He died on 26 May 1908.^[1] In 2011, Bonhams auctioned his set of medals and orders for £62,400, including the Commander 1st Class's badge of the Order of Philip of Hesse,^[15] the 2nd class badge of the Russian Order of St Anne, the Commander's badges of the Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Swedish Order of the North Star.^[16]

• Photograph by Orlando Norie (c. 1887) in the Royal Collection; albumen print with watercolour border, ref. number RCIN 2502635.