Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp

Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp

Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp PC (born November 10, 1830 - February 19, 1891 in Madresfield Court, Worcestershire ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1857 and 1866 and was named 6 in 1866 . Earl Beauchamp inherited and thus until his death a member of the House of Lords was.

He was Lord Steward of the Household between 1874 and 1880 and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcestershire from 1876 to 1891 and twice from 1885 to 1886 and again between 1886 and 1887 the office of Paymaster General .

Life

Family origins and studies

Frederick Lygon was the sixth and youngest child of General Henry Beauchamp Lygon , who was also a Member of the House of Commons between 1816 and 1853 and who inherited the title of 4th Earl Beauchamp in 1853 and thereby became a member of the House of Lords, and his wife, Lady Susan Caroline Eliot, a daughter by William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St Germans . His eldest sister, Felicia Susan Lygon, was married to the clergyman Charles William Cavendish, son of General Henry Cavendish . His second oldest sister, Lady Georgina Lygon, was married to Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan . His third oldest sister Georgina Lygon and his eldest brother William Lygon both died as infants, while his second oldest brother Henry Lygon was also a member of the House of Commons and inherited the title of 5th Earl Beauchamp after his father's death in 1863 and thereby became a member of the House of Commons has been.

He began by attending the prestigious Eton College on 15 December 1848 studies at Christ Church of University of Oxford , which he in 1852 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). He then became a Fellow at All Souls College there in 1852 and also completed postgraduate studies at Christ Church, which he completed in 1856 with a Master of Arts (MA).

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

Madresfield Court, the ancestral home of the Lygon family

Lygon began his political career when he was elected to the House of Commons for the first time as a candidate for the Conservative Tories on March 27, 1857, where he represented the constituency of Tewkesbury until March 26, 1863 and then from October 26, 1863 to May 4. March 1866 the Worcestershire Western constituency . During this time he held from March to June 1859 in the government of Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, his first government office as Lord of the Admiralty (Lord of the Admiralty) .

After the death of his older brother Henry Lygon, 5th Earl Beauchamp, he inherited from this on March 4, 1866 the title of 6th Earl Beauchamp and the subordinate title of 6th Viscount Elmley and 6th Baron Beauchamp . This made him a member of the House of Lords, to which he belonged for almost 25 years until his death on February 19, 1891. He also became heir to Madresfield Court , the ancestral home of the Lygon family and thus the Earl Beauchamp.

Lord Steward of the Household, Lord Lieutenant and Paymaster General

On February 21, 1874 Earl Beauchamp, who on June 22, 1870 from the University of Oxford an Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws, succeeded John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough as Lord Steward of the Household and held this position Office until his replacement by John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney on April 21, 1880. He was a member of the government, the highest dignitary of the royal court and was thus also head of the Board of Green Cloth , the administrative body and court of justice of the royal Household. At the same time he was appointed a member of the Privy Council on March 2, 1874 .

At the same time, after the suicide of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton on April 19, 1876, he succeeded him as Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire and held this office as representative of Queen Victoria in this county until his death in 1891. He was succeeded by George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry .

On June 24, 1885, Earl Beauchamp was first appointed Paymaster General by Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and held this government office until January 28, 1886. He held the office of Paymaster General again in the second government of the Marquess of Salisbury from August 19, 1886 until his replacement by Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow, in March 1887.

Marriages and offspring

Lady Mary Catherine Stanhope, the first wife of the 6th Earl Beauchamp

The eldest son of 6th Earl Beauchamp William Lygon was heir to the title as 7th Earl Beauchamp

Earl Beauchamp, who died unexpectedly of a myocardial infarction on February 19, 1891 at a dinner at the Madresfield Court family estate at the age of 60 , was married twice and was the father of five daughters and four sons. On his death he left a fortune of £ 114,741 .

His first marriage was on February 18, 1868, in St George's Church in London, with Lady Mary Catherine Stanhope, daughter of the historian Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope .

From this marriage three daughters and two sons were born. The eldest daughter, Lady Mary Lygon, was married to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Walter Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, son of Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton . The second eldest daughter Lady Susan Lygon was with Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet married, the 1916-1920 Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Scotland (Grand Lodge of Scotland) was.

His eldest son, William Lygon , inherited the title of 7th Earl Beauchamp and the subordinate titles after his death in 1891 and was, among other things, Governor of New South Wales between 1899 and 1901, and Lord Steward of the Household from 1907 to 1910, in 1910 and again 1914 to 1915 Lord President of the Council and from 1913 to 1934 Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and 1914 winner of the Order of the Garter .

His second eldest son, Edward Hugh Lygon, fell on March 23, 1900 as a lieutenant during the Second Boer War . The youngest daughter from the first marriage to Lady Margaret Lygon was the wife of Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill , who in 1904 was temporarily Governor General and Viceroy of India and a founding member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

After the early death of his first wife on June 30, 1876, he married Lady Emily Annora Charlotte Pierrepont, the eldest daughter of Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, on September 24, 1878 in Perlethorpe , Nottinghamshire . From this marriage two more sons and two more daughters were born.

The older son was Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lygon, who was married to Cecilia Albinia Arbuthnot, a daughter of British Indian entrepreneur George Gough Arbuthnot . The older daughter Agnes Lygon was married to the son of the well-known politician Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel , Arthur George Villiers Peel , who published numerous economic and political books and was himself a member of the lower house for the Liberal Party between 1917 and 1918 .

The younger daughter Maud Lygon was the wife of the well-known politician of the Conservative Party, Samuel John Gurney Hoare , who was among other things Minister for India , Foreign Minister and Interior Minister and was raised to the nobility in 1944 as Viscount Templewood, of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex and so that the House of Lords belonged as a member. The younger son of Earl Beauchamp's second marriage was Henry Lygon, who died unmarried.

Web links

• Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Lygon	Earl Beauchamp 1866-1891	William Lygon