inheritance is so splendid, and so thoroughly sustained by his character and talents, that his accession to the Peerage seems little more than the correction of an accidental anomaly. He adds, at least, as much to the credit of the order as he can possibly receive in return." Ellesmere served on the Commons Select Committee on the affairs of New Zealand in 1844, and was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848. In 1849, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, Joseph Thomas, named Lake Ellesmere in New Zealand after him. Writings, travels and art patronage Ellesmere's claims to remembrance are founded chiefly on his services to literature and the fine arts. Before he was twenty he printed for private circulation a volume of poems, which he followed up after a short interval by the publication of a translation of Goethe's Faust, one of the earliest that appeared in England; a further volume containing some translations of German lyrics and a few original poems soon followed. Egerton's translation of Faust ( which predates the publication of Faust (part two) by Goethe) was criticised by a subsequent translator as betraying incomprehension of the original and having sacrificed Goethe's sense and artistic judgement to Egerton's preference for a pretty rhyme. The Examiner seized on this, asking 'Why did he not learn German, and translate into prose?'. Other literary translations by Egerton included [[Wallenstein (trilogy of plays)|Wallenstein's Camp]], Hernani, and Catherine of Cleves (from the elder Dumas's Henri III et sa cour): although these were published they had been originally made for use in Egerton's private theatricals. In 1831, Egerton put on in a private theatre at Bridgewater House (his town house) a production of his Hernani in which both he and Fanny Kemble appeared; Queen Adelaide and 'most of the Royal Family' attended. Egerton took the chair at the farewell dinner given by the Garrick Club to Charles Kemble when the latter retired from the stage. A persistent sufferer from gout and lumbago, he spent the winter of 1839 in Rome for his health (and that of his eldest son), and in the spring and summer of 1840 visited the Holy Land, Egypt, and Greece subsequently recording his impressions in Sketches on the Coast of the Mediterranean (1843). He published several other works in prose and verse, including a translation of Raumer's History of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,