Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 12th Baronet

Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton, 12th Baronet JP DP (29 April 1864 – 4 July 1937) was a British soldier and aristocrat who was a member of the Grey and Egerton families.

Early life Philip Henry Brian Grey-Egerton was born on 29 April 1864. He was the only son of Sir Philip le Belward Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet (1833–1891) and Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth Sophia Denison (1836–1924), who married in July 1861. His only sibling was sister Violet Edith Grey-Egerton, who married John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly in 1897.

His paternal grandparents were Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet and the former Anna Elizabeth Legh. Their engagement had been announced in The New York Times on October 29, 1893. May was a daughter of Alice (née Holden) Cuyler and Maj. James Wayne Cuyler of Baltimore, Maryland, and a great-granddaughter of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States James Moore Wayne. Before their divorce in May 1905, they were the parents of twin sons and a daughter:

Philip de Malpas Wayne Grey-Egerton (1895–1918), a Captain in the 19th Royal Hussars who was killed in action at Brancoucourt Farm. Rowland le Belward Grey-Egerton (1895–1914), a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who was also killed in action. Cecily Alice Grey Grey-Egerton MBE (d. 1981), who married Lt. Col. Denys Edward Prideaux-Brune DSO (d. 4 Jun 1952), second son of Hon. Katharine Hugessen (daughter of Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne) and Col. Charles Robert Prideaux-Brune of Prideaux Place, on 30 July 1918.

After his divorce from his first wife, she married Richard McCreery in 1907, and he remarried to Aimée Mary (née Cumming) Clarke on 26 April 1910.