Michael Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington

Michael Hugh Hicks Beach, Viscount Quenington (19 January 1877 – 23 April 1916), was a British politician.

Biography

Hicks-Beach was the eldest son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, and his wife Lady Lucy Catherine Fortescue. He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1906 to 1916 and was a board member at Lloyds Bank.

Hicks-Beach fought in the First World War as a Captain with the 1/1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and died, aged 39, on 23 April 1916 as a result of wounds received at Katia, Egypt. He is buried at the Cairo New British Protestant Cemetery alongside his wife.

From 1915, when his father was created 1st Earl St Aldwyn, Hicks-Beach held the courtesy title of Viscount Quenington.

Marriage and children

Hicks-Beach married Marjorie Brocklehurst, daughter of Henry Dent Brocklehurst of Sudeley Castle, on 28 September 1909. They had two children:^[1]

• Lady Delia Mary Hicks-Beach (born 2 August 1910, died 29 November 2006), married Brigadier Sir Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, MVO, 3rd Bt.^[2]
• Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn (born 9 October 1912, died 29 January 1992).

Lady Quenington died in Egypt^[3] on 4 March 1916, less than two months before her husband. Their son Michael succeeded his grandfather in the earldom only a week after his father's death. He also became a prominent politician.

Cover of memorial service sheet, 4 May 1916, for Lord St. Aldwyn (1837–1916) & Viscount Quenington (1877–1916).

References

1. The Peerage, entry for Viscount Quenington
2. Obituary of Lady Delia Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn
3. cf Plaque in the chapel at Sudeley Castle.

• ThePeerage.com: Michael Hugh Hicks-Beach, Viscount Quenington
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Quenington