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Bridgewater (FRANCIS EGER- third DUKE)

FRANCIS EGER- ΤΟΝ, third DUKE OF, the "Father of Inland Navigation in Great Britain," born in 1736. With the assistance of his celebrated engineer, Brindley, and after enormous expense, and years of difficulty, he cut a canal uniting Liverafter enormous expense, and years of difficulty, he cut a canal uniting Liverpool and Manchester which was completed in 1761. He afterward promoted the Grand Trunk Canal navigation, and by the two schemes, for a while, so impoverished himself that he was deprived of the commonest comforts. He became ultimately the possessor of immense wealth, realized from the results of his life's labors. The annual value of the Bridgewater canal estate is estimated at about $1,250,000. He died in London, March 3, 1803.