EGMONT 



EGRI PALANKA 



23, 1839. The week's pageant was 

 entirely spoiled by rain. Arrayed 

 in complete suits of armour and 

 representing characters in chivalry, 

 some 15 knights tilted in ancient 

 fashion, breaking their spears in 

 the jousts and finally paying their 

 devoirs to the queen of beauty. 

 Lady Seymour, afterwards duches? 

 of Somerset. 



Egmont. Cone of an extinct 

 volcano, North Island, Ne\v 

 Zealand. It rises from theTaranaki 

 plain to a height of 8,2(50 ft. It is 

 perpetually covered with snow, and 

 is a well-known landmark for sailors. 



Egmont, EARL OF. Irish title 

 borne since 1733 by the family of 

 Perceval. In 1661 Sir John Per- 

 ceval was made a baronet, and the 

 baronetcy passed in turn to several 

 descendants, being inherited in 

 1691 by another Sir John (1683- 

 1748). He was an M.P., and the 

 first president of Georgia, which 

 colony he helped to found. He was 

 made baron, viscount, and earl. 



John, the 2nd earl (1711-70), 

 was a prominent politician in the 

 time of George II. From 1761 

 to 1766 he was first lord of the 

 Admiralty. In 1762 he was made 

 a British peer as Baron Lovel 

 and Holland, and with that title 

 the present earl sits in the House 

 of Lords. Spencer Perceval, the 

 prime minister, was his son. For 

 long the earls lived at Cowdray 

 Park, Midhurst, but early in the 

 20th century it was sold to Sir 

 Weetman Pearson, later Viscount 

 Cowdray, and the earl's seat is 

 now Avon Castle, Ringwood, Hants. 

 The title is taken from a little place 

 in co. Cork, near where, at Burton 

 House, the earlier Percevals lived. 



Egmont, LAMORAL, COUNT OF 

 (1522-68). Flemish statesman. 

 He was born at La Hamaide Castle, 

 Hainault, Nov. 18, 1522, and in 

 1541 was with Charles V on his 

 expedition to Algiers, and in subse- 

 quent campaigns against France. 

 In 1545 he married a sister of the 

 elector palatine and later was ap- 



Egremont, Chesmre. line promenade, looking 

 the tower at New Brighton 



Egmont. The snow-capped cone of the extinct vol- 

 cano of North Island, New Zealand 



pointed governor of Flanders. In 

 spite of his proved loyalty to the 

 Spanish government he fell under 

 suspicion, and was beheaded at 

 Brussels, June 5, 1568. His life 

 forms the subject of Goethe's well- 

 known tragedy (1788). In 1865 

 a monument to his memory was 

 erected in Brussels. See Rise of 

 the Dutch Republic, J. L. Motley, 

 vols. i-ii, new ed. (World's Clas- 

 sics), 1906. 



Ego (Lat., I). In philosophical 

 terminology, the thinking subject 

 as distinguished from that which 

 does not belong to it from the 

 object, the non-ego (not-I). It is 

 the constant factor of the data of 

 experience, identical and perman- 

 ent in all living, conscious beings. 

 In spite of the constant change in 

 the physical individual, the ego 

 continues the same. Thus, if I 

 am writing at one moment and 

 reading at another, the I is the 

 same in both cases. 



Egoism (Lat. ego, I). In phil- 

 osophy, the theory that only ' I " 

 exist, and that everything else is 

 only an idea of this " I.'" This is 

 now more commonly called solip- 

 sism (solus, alone ; ipse, self). 

 Egoism is more generally under- 

 stood as the theory of self-interest, 

 which leads a person to act with a 

 view to securing pleasure or ad- 

 vantage for himself 

 1 without any con- 

 sideration for 

 I others. Egotism, 

 as distinct from 

 egoism, is thinking 

 or telling too much 

 about oneself. 



Egoist, T H E. 

 Novel by George 

 Meredith (q.v.), 

 published in 1879. 

 If not great as a 

 -rory it is yet one 

 of Meredith's great- 

 est prose works. 

 In the central 

 character, Sir Wil- 

 loughby Patterne. 



is presented a re- 

 morseless delinea- 

 tion of egoism 

 fostered by circum- 

 stance. 



""' Egremont. A 

 town and ecclesias- 

 tical district of 

 Cheshire, a resi- 

 dential suburb of 

 Liverpool and 

 Birkenhead. It 

 stands on the S. 

 side of the Mer- 

 sey, 2 m. N.W. of 

 Birkenhead, and, 

 with Seacombe, 

 has a station on 

 the ' Wirral Rly. 

 Tramways and a promenade con- 

 nect it with New Brighton, while 

 steamers go regularly from here to 

 Liverpool. Pop. 15,961. 



Egremont. Urban dist. and 

 market town of Cumberland, Eng- 

 land. It stands on the Ehen, 5 m. 

 S.E of Whitehaven and close to the 

 Irish Sea. An ancient town, Egre- 

 mont was a parl. bor. in the reign 

 of Edward I, and has ruins of a 

 12th century castle. Iron ore is 

 mined and limestone quarried. 

 Market day, Sat. Pop.' 6,305. 



Egremont, EARL OF. British 

 title borne by the family of Wynd- 

 ham from 1750 to 1845. It was 

 first a subsidi- 

 ary title of the 

 7th duke of 

 Somerset, Al- 

 gernon Sey- 

 mour, for 

 whom it was 

 created in 

 1749. From 

 him it passed, 

 in 1750, by 

 .special a r - 

 . Phniip,. a.A. rangement to 

 his nephew, Sir 

 Charles Wyndham,Bart. (1710-63), 

 who was secretary of state from 1 761 

 -63. The 3rd earl, George O' Brien 

 Wyndham (1751-1837), made Pet- 

 worth, his Sussex residence, noted 

 for hospitality. When he died he 

 left his estates to his natural son, 

 George Wyndham. who wa- ; made 

 Baron Leconneld in 1859. The title, 

 however, passed to a nephew, and 

 became extinct on his death in 1 845. 

 Egret. Name applied to several 

 species of small white herons, of 

 which the little eirret is one of the 

 best known examples. It occurs 

 very rarely in Great Britain, but 

 is common in S. Europe and in 

 many parts of Asia and Africa 

 5'ee Aigrette 



Egri Palanka. Town of Yugo- 

 slavia. It U situated on the hiuh 

 road from Uskub to the Bulgarian 

 frontier. It is a trade centre of 

 strategic importance Pop. 5.000 



